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Pride Entertainment Line-up and Parade Route

History of Utah Pride

Logan Council Passes Nondiscrimination Ordinances

Four Corners to Have Its Own Pride

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first person om the editor Shucking the Shoulds

by Michael Aaron

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AY IS WHEN WE ARE IN THE MIDST

of putting this Pride issue, TheQPages, our festival booth and our parade entry together and our thoughts are more about when Pride is all over than whether it is fun and important to our lives. But, as this column is always the very last thing I do before sending the paper off to press, I can generally sit back, breath a heavy sigh and wax poetic about whatever is going on at the moment. Some people call that procrastination. Others call it working better under pressure. Those “others” are generally procrastinators, themselves.

I can remember a time when there was no consistent Pride celebration in Salt Lake. Only when some energetic (or crazy ... or both) person stepped up and said, “let’s do this,” was there a gathering of a couple hundred beautiful people at some out-of-the-way park. Then, in the mid 80s some momentum began to happen and the crowds began to swell, our hearts along with them.

My first gay pride celebration was in San Francisco in June of 1984.

On the spur of the moment, we invited a friend to drive to San Francisco with us the morning before ... in his car. San Francisco’s Pride was a spectacle of faux fur and feathers and beads (oh my), but mostly it was an affirmation that there were thousands (the official estimate was 300,000 that year) of people like me and my friends who were beautiful, honorable people. It was exhilarating.

Later, I went to a March on Washington and the crowds filled the Mall and chants echoed deafeningly through the Metro subway stations as we traveled to and fro.

You can’t help to get swept up in the emo-

tion of something that grand.

And while our numbers don’t match up to San Francisco or a March on Washington, the heartswell is still there. Our small, but pretty-great state puts on a show and gathers a crowd that belies everything that should be. We’re small, so our crowds should be even smaller than they are.

We’re repressed so less people should feel the courage to make the trip to the Festival Grounds. But, as everything else in this community, we defy those shoulds and make our own reality of our situation.

There are some who believe that the need for Pride celebrations is over, but you need only read the daily news (or more defeatingly, the online comments on gay stories in the news) to know that much work still needs to be done, and much pride still needs to be developed.

Others say that Pride is merely boys prancing about in their skivvies or (gasp) in dresses, and women who look like the butchest of truck drivers parading about on the street.

I admit that much of Pride looks like Mardi Gras, but to me that doesn’t make it wrong. Pride happens when we shuck the shoulds we hear from religious leaders, politicians, schoolyard bullies and, too often, our parents and celebrate what we know to be our true selves. We shuck that, and some throw it in the face of those who looked down their nose at them or scorned them, or beat them. If that means making a few people uncomfortable with our expression, so be it.

Pride happens when we come together — gay, straight and everything in-between and around — and celebrate our unique qualities ... together in Pride. Q

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Quips & Quotes

Episcopal Church Consecrates Another Gay Bishop, But Not in Utah

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We know what you’re up to. Boo!” —Sandra Rodrigues, leader of the anti-gay group America Forever, to supporters of Logan’s gay and transgender-inclusive housing and employment ordinances

by Rex Wockner

Although the 2003 consecration of openly gay and partnered New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson still threatens to implode the worldwide Anglican Communion, the U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated a second openly gay and partnered bishop on May 15.

The Diocese of Los Angeles elevated the Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool to the position of suffragan bishop in a ceremony at the Long Beach Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool Arena that was disrupted by two anti-gay protesters.

“The world’s transformed only if we turn to each and every one of our brothers and sisters and see the face of Christ superimposed on them,” said co-consecrator Bishop Jon Bruno of Los Angeles.

There are about 70,000 Episcopalians in the six-county Diocese of Los Angeles.

Utah Episcopalians chose Rev. Scott B. Hayashi of Chicago over Rev. Michael Barlowe, who married his male partner in California. —MICHAEL AARON CONTRIBUTED TO THIS STORY

60 Percent of Iowa Gay Marriages Between Non-Iowans There have been 2,020 same-sex marriages in Iowa since the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage starting April 27, 2009 — but only 815 of the marriages involved couples from Iowa.

The other 1,205 same-sex marriages were between people who traveled to the state to tie the knot, including 199 couples from Illinois, 158 from Missouri, 111 from Nebraska, 109 from Minnesota and 67 from Kansas.

The figures, released by the Iowa Department of Public Health on May 18, are complete through March 31.

In addition, among the 19,904 couples who married in Iowa during the period in question, there are 1,015 couples whose sex was not recorded in official records.

More lesbians than gay men got married — 1,292 couples vs. 728.

The largest number of gay marriages occurred in the counties that are home to Des Moines, Davenport, Iowa City and Council Bluffs.

Same-sex marriage is legal in Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. —RW

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Because if we can pass LGBT protections in Logan, Utah, we should be able to pass ENDA.” —Headline of a blog post by former Utahn John Wright for Dallas Voice

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The Memphis-based giant FedEx announced on Tuesday changes with health benefits that are more inclusive of same-sex couples. More than 200,000 employees at FedEx will be able to obtain same-sex domestic partner benefits beginning Jan. 1, 2012.

Minn. Governor Vetoes Gay Funeral Bill Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a “final wishes” bill May 15 that would have given gay individuals control over a deceased partner’s funeral and allowed a surviving partner to sue in case of wrongful death.

“Marriage — as defined as between a man and a woman — should remain elevated in our society at a special level, as it traditionally has been,” the Minn. Gov. Tim Pawlenty governor said.

“I oppose efforts to treat domestic relationships as the equivalent of traditional marriage.” —RW

Gay Activists Arrested at U.S. Senator’s Chicago Office Thirteen gay activists were arrested at a sit-in at the Chicago office of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on May 20.

The ad hoc group claimed Durbin has failed to affirm “his commitment to a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act.” Instead, Durbin, who is an ENDA co-sponsor, e-mailed the activists a “form letter” saying he supports prohibition of “employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation,” they said.

A version of ENDA that bans job discrimination based only on sexual orientation

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might pass Congress more easily than one that bans both sexual-orientation and gender-identity discrimination.

But, unlike in some previous years, all key LGBT activists — as well as Congress’ gay members — now oppose the notion of upping the bill’s chances of success by aiming for gay protections first and then attempting transgender protections later.

“We have to be here to fight for those who are forced to remain invisible and deny who they are just to make a living,” said Lindsey Dietzler, who was among those arrested.

The protesters were cited and released.

On their website, titled “Chicago Harvey Milk Week of Action,” the activists said: “Although we’re very glad our senator has cosponsored the bill, we have seen him do precious little else to support it. As the majority whip of the Senate, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the Senate, we need Senator Durbin to stand before the media and his colleagues and forcefully advocate for this bill’s immediate passage.” —RW

Judge Says NOM Should Reveal Anti-Gay Marrige Donor Info A federal magistrate judge recommended that the National Organization for Marriage give state officials information about donors who helped fund the successful campaign to repeal Maine’s gay marriage law.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Rich, III, said in a ruling handed down May 23 that the NOM should hand over documents relating to donors and fundraising dating back to Jan. 1, 2009, to the state attorney general.

The state’s Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices examined the group’s contributions when it was accused of not reporting the names of many donors.

The group argued its donors contribute to the organization and not to a particular referendum campaign. —MA

Shame on Councilmen Olsen, Monson, Daines for joining hands with the gay movement and becoming homosexual activists to oppress religious citizens [sic] freedoms.”

—Flyer distributed before the council’s vote by America Forever.

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We’re a small, not really very diverse community and it was so moving to see so many people rally for fairness. It was the proudest moment I’ve had since I’ve lived in Logan.”

—Utah State University professor Christy Glass to the Deseret News

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When [Logan Council Chair] Jay Monson talked about the outpouring of support for this issue I instantly burst into tears because I was so moved.”

—Maure Smith, USU program coordinator for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and allied services

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It’s not going to solve all of our problems, but it’s a beginning.”

—Logan Councilman Herm Olsen

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Gay teenagers have nowhere to turn to for support or help. … When gay teens hear from their peers, as well as from adults, that they are evil, selfish, unnatural, secondclass and not as deserving as ‘normal’ people, what messages do you think they remember?”

—Southern Utah resident Carlyle Porter, the father of a gay son, in an editorial for The Spectrum written in support of gay-straight alliances.

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The fact he is gay is the least interesting thing about him.”

—Episcopalian Rev. Rick Whittaker on Rev. Michael Barlowe, an openly gay candidate for Utah’s Episcopal Bishop, in The Salt Lake Tribune

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local news Logan Council Passes NonDiscrimination Ordinances

by Michael Aaron

No Logan Municipal Council meeting had ever been started off with a song before. Nor had they ever had overflow seating. Nor had to remove someone from the podium by police escort. Nor had a standing ovation over a vote.

They had all of these the night of Tuesday, May 18 as the council voted 4-0 with one abstention to pass two non-discrimination ordinances patterned after those passed in Salt Lake City last November. Logan is now the fifth Utah municipality to do so. Equality Utah hopes to make that 10 by the end of the year.

On May 5, the council first considered the ordinances, but tabled them until August after a majority of the council members said they were not necessary — that Logan didn’t have an issue with such discrimination.

Then the letter-writing campaign began.

Two council members said they received 393 e-mails favoring the ordinances. Eighteen had written opposing them.

Within days, the measure was put on the docket of the following meeting.

Councilman Herm Olsen first introduced the measures after being asked to do so by the Logan chapter of Mormons for Equality and Social Justice.

Logan gay activist Isaac Higham sent an immediate call-to-action when the proposed ordinances were tabled. “The council tabled the proposals because they wanted to receive more ‘public input’ (despite not even allowing it to advance to a public hearing), so let’s give them public input,� he wrote.

And write, they did. Nearly all council members said they had received heartfelt and respectful e-mails and letters from gay and transgender Logan citizens.

Olsen and Logan Municipal Council Chairman Jay Monson found that they had the needed votes to pass the ordinances and once again placed the issues on the agenda.

Along came the Rodrigues family from Sandy, also known as the group “America Forever,� who picketed the church services at Monson’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints ward with signs saying he “hates children.� Monson is a career educator with nine children. They also picketed near the home of councilwoman Holly Daines, who had sent a letter to fellow council members that she had changed her position and favored the ordinances. “Shame on Holly Daines for becoming a gay activist,� read one of the signs. “Logan will be the next homosexual activist city,� read another.

The group also took a flyer written by the Sutherland Institute, chopped it up and added their own rhetoric, and faxed dozens of Logan businesses.

Over 200 people packed both the council chambers and the adjoining conference room, spilling into the hallway. As the meeting started, Monson set ground rules for the public hearing on the proposed ordinances.

They would allow public comment for one hour, starting with Logan City residents and business owners for the first 40 minutes,

opening up to all interested parties for the final 20 minutes.

In the opening ceremony, someone is generally asked to give a thought or prayer. Jeremy Threlfall, however, offered a song “Love One Another� which set the tone of the meeting. He then led the Pledge of Allegiance, during which the phrase “for all� was especially emphasized.

Utah State graduate student Brooke Robertshaw was the first to speak on the measures and said it takes “a lot of courage to stand up against discrimination.� “I don’t know if your actions tonight will directly save a life,� she said. “but I do know that your actions will contribute to saving lives.�

Tyler Griggs, a personality on the conservative Logan talk station KVNU, spoke

Q uni of property rights and the Constitution — a common theme parrotted by much of the opposition who spoke at the meeting.

Two members of the King family in Logan, who are known for their Constitutionalist views, spoke against the measure, saying the Council had no authority to “take on the responsibility of morality in businesses.� “We need more compassion, not more control,� said familry matriarch Michelle King. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,� Utah State University student Isaac Higham said, quoting James Madison.

After Logan residents and business owners spoke, Monson allowed members of America Forever to speak. He interrupted them several times warning them to speak only to the measures in the city of Logan. When Jessica Rodrigues insisted on continuing a line about forcing children to read Heather Has Two Mommies, Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen esorted her from the podium.

In the end, only one council member — Dean Quayle — did not favor the ordinances, but also did not vote against them, choosing to abstain instead.

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HRC Volunteers HRC Utah needs volunteers for the Utah Pride Festival for the following times: June 5, 4–11 p.m.and June 6, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Email hrcutahvolunteers@gmail.com with preferred shift or for more information.

SAGE Volunteers SAGE, the Utah Pride Center’s organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people age 50 and over, is looking for volunteers to march in the Utah Pride Parade and to staff the group’s booth on the festival grounds. If interested, call Tracie at 801-521-3191 and leave your name and number. Volunteers will get a free t-shirt. Volunteer slots are open on both June 5 and 6.

TINT Volunteers The Tolerant Intelligent Network of Teens, the Utah Pride Center’s Youth Activities Center, is looking for volunteers age 21 and over. Duties include serving as mentors to youth and keeping the TINT a safe space.

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against the ordinances, but also against the tactics of America Forever. “Allow me to express a moment of disgust with the America Forever group, and any others who are fueled by their hatred of homosexuals, who have invaded our community for the past few days and, unfortunately, brought their fallacious, offensive and disrespectful arguments into your neighborhoods and, in at least one unfortunate case, religious services. While I do oppose these proposed changes to law, I do not stand with this group,� he said. “But of all the ways there are to end discrimination, a city council passing another law is among the most offensive, ineffective and overall poor way to do it.�

Logan resident Gail Hansen said that the beauty parlor she visited earlier in the day was abuzz about the ordinances. “I was enlightened to hear that my fellow clients were in favor of the ordiances,� she said.

Paul Mero of the Sutherland Institute released a statement earlier in the day attacking the ordinances largely on the basis

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Quayle said that in the last week he had heard “horrific� stories of the treatment of homosexuals in Logan, but those cases largely did not involve employment or housing. “It’s my thought and feeling that these ordinances aren’t going to do anything,� he said.

Olsen, however, countered that “it is a beginning.� “It is time we took the steps we need to and put the pain and hurt behind us,� he said.

After the vote, most in the chambers applauded and gave a standing ovation. As they filed out, however, Sandra Rodrigues was sitting on a bench yelling, “boo!� As she left, she verbally accosted the jubilant crowd, yelling, “shame on you!�

Outside, Jonas Filho, Sr., yelled to the crowd that they were pawns of the Human Rights Campaign, which he called the “largest lobbying organization in the world.� Jonas Filho, Jr. yelled that supporters of gay rights sought to teach anal sex to children.

Logan City Mayor Randy Watts has signed the bill. It will be effective upon publication, which will be by the Logan Herald on May 27.

PFLAG Salt Lake City is offering five $1,000 scholarships to college students and high school graduates for the 2010-2011 academic year. Scholarships are open to Utah residents attending accredited colleges or universities who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or an ally. The scholarship packet must contain an application form (available by emailing slcpflag@ gmail.com), two letters of recommendation (one from an academic source), and a two-page essay. The essay must describe a personal experience working within the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and how that experience supports PFLAG’s mission to promote the well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families. Essay must be typed in Arial font and 12 point format.

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Durango, Colo. to Host First Four Corners Pride Festival The inaugural Four Corners Pride Festival will be held June 26 in the beautiful and majestic mountain town of Durango, Colo.

Organized by The Alliance, a collaboration of several not-for-profits in the Four Corners region — Four Corners Gay and Lesbian Alliance for Diversity, Sexual Assault Service Organization, Four Corners Lesbian Network, San Juan College OUT, Fort Lewis College Prism, and Durango Chapter of Parents Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays — the event hopes to raise visibility of rural LGBTQ identities and create stronger communities in the Southwest.

The festival, like most, has scheduled gay and allied keynote speakers to voice the importance of joining together to celebrate the diversity of community in the region, as well as performances by Nina Sasaki, Kentucky Deluxe and other area groups. Food and a beer garden will be provided by area restaurants and breweries.

Durango is a small college town nestled in the Animas River Valley of the San Juan Mountains, sits at an elevation of over 6500

feet and covers only about 5.5 miles. “The Four Corners seems very remote, which we are, but we also offer a very cosmopolitan feel for a small western town,” said Greg Weiss, a New York transplant and board member of Four Corners Gay and Lesbian Alliance For Diversity (4cGLAD). “The community is very liberal and accepting of the LGBTQ community in the area, which is very strong and growing by the day.”

Other events and get-togethers held throughout the year in Durango are an annual campout, several dances “which draw close to 300 people,” gay movie nights and a weekly Happy Hour, hosted by 4cGLAD, at an allied bar. There are no gay bars, but Weiss said he’s been surprised by the inclusiveness of the community.

“Stay tuned for more information,” added Weiss. “The Durango Tourism Board is coming on board as a sponsor of the festival, which just shows how supportive the area is of our community.”

For more information about the Four Corners Pride Festival, including discounted hotel rates, contact Greg Weiss at 970-799-2081 or info@4cGLAD.org.

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local news Straight Ally Comes to Lesbian’s Aid at Prop 8 Rally, Faces 18-Month Legal Battle

by JoSelle Vanderhooft

Diana Schaffer didn’t know how to answer her children’s questions about gay people in the wake of Proposition 8’s passage, so she took them to meet some of her gay friends at a rally being held around Temple Square.

She didn’t expect two things: that the marchers would number in the thousands, or that events at the rally would embroil her in an 18-month legal battle involving the question of whether or not she hit and injured a Salt Lake City parking enforcement officer as she was backing her truck out to leave the rally.

“I wanted to give my kids a civics lesson, but I didn’t intend for it to be the civics lesson we got,” she said.

During the rally, Schaffer’s son, who suffers from chronic health problems, complained of a stomachache, so Schaffer decided to take her family home. As she approached her car, however, she said she noticed something unusual: a parking enforcement officer — better known as a “meter maid” — arguing with a lesbian who had parked straddling a sidewalk.

The woman — who Schaffer said she later learned was being insulted by the PEO who insisted upon calling her “sir” — was shouting for a police officer. When a dozen motorcycled officers road past without stopping, Schaffer said she approached the PEO and asked her badge number.

“I wanted to complain to the city [that] there’s this person out here screaming for police and no one was responding,” she said.

But Schaffer said she found herself in the middle of the altercation as she got her children into her truck, which she had inadvertently parked in a no parking zone. She said she asked the PEO, named Gail Cameron, and Ashley Holingshead, PEO-in-training who had shown up on the scene, to move so she could pull out. As she did, Schaffer said the two banged on her car shouting, “You almost hit us!”

Rattled by the experience, Schaffer drove home, where she said an officer soon showed up and arrested her.

“He asked me what my name was and he put handcuffs on me when I stepped out of the door,” she said. “My little girl was outside trying to explain I didn’t do anything.”

Schaffer was charged with two counts of aggravated assault (3rd degree felonies) and one count of criminal mischief (a class B misdemeanor). As the Salt Lake City Police Department’s Watch Command log for Nov. 7 reads: “Parking Enforcement Officers were conducting their duties in the area. They cited the vehicle belonging to the Diana Schaffer ..., who upon discovering the ticket and becoming argumentative attempted to run over the two officers. Her vehicle struck both victims slightly and broke the driver’s side mirror off the parking enforcement vehicle.”

Schaffer, however, denied the charges and refused to take a plea bargain. In April, she was found not guilty on all counts.

Schaffer said she is going public with her story now because she doesn’t think enough evidence existed to bring her to trial. Further, she said that police and the office of Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller acted unethically in handling her case from evidence-gathering to the trial itself.

“It’s kind of an LGBT issue but it’s bigger than that. It’s an ‘everyone who lives in Salt Lake City who happens to be middle class [issue],’” she said. “It takes a lot of gumption to do what I did [in not accepting a plea]. I knew they’d accused me of something that was physically impossible.

Their own expert agreed that what [they said] I’d done was physically impossible, and they still took me to trial.”

The “physically impossible” move to which Schaffer refers involves the angle at which her truck supposedly hit the driver’s side mirror on the PEO’s vehicle. Schaffer said that evidence showed the mirror wasn’t broken that night. Both Cameron and Hollingshead, she said, testified that they were standing by one of the vehicles doors when Schaffer struck the car.

“Had I done that, I’d have killed both of them,” she said, noting Cameron initially testified that the truck came within roughly an inch of hitting her.

But that inch may not have been as relevant as Schaffer thinks, said Chou Chou Collins, the county prosecutor who tried the case. Rather, she said the DA’s expert testified that while it was possible for Schaffer to have backed up without striking the other vehicle, it was equally possible that the bulky truck could have struck the officers, depending on how Schaffer angled it when pulling out.

The exact angle the truck took is, of course, not measurable.

Additionally, Schaffer has some harsh words for Collins, whom she says knowingly represented someone — in this case Cameron — “that wanted to be able to sue me.” After the incident at the rally, Cameron filed a workers compensation claim stating that she sustained a back injury when Schaffer’s car struck her. However, Schaffer points to the fact that Cameron received a workers comp denial just days previous. “[Cameron] had this history of suspicious-looking workers compensation claims,” she said. In preparing their case, Schaffer and her attorney Greg Skordas obtained this history, as it was part of their case.

Collins, however, said she didn’t see why such a medical history was relevant. Cameron, she said, had fallen on ice “a week or two before the incident.”

“She was going through physical therapy,” Collins said. “I don’t know if she had

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a back problem even before that, but this incident aggravated the problem.”

Regarding Cameron and Hollingshead, Schaffer said that both women changed their testimony on the stand. “They told two different stories,” she said. “One that they were squished between the vehicles, and another that [I] stopped in front of them.”

Further, she said that Collins mischaracterized 911 tapes from the scene of the alleged crime. Here, said Schaffer, the PEOs can be heard saying that they were fine, and that Schaffer’s truck had not hit them. In contrast, she said Collins allowed the PEOs to call the parts of the tape that contained this testimony “unremarkable.”

“From the beginning I begged to listen to the 911 tapes, and before I heard them I didn’t know how exculpatory they were,” she said. Rather than hearing the voice of a PEO calling for a police officer, Schaffer said she heard “the woman saying she didn’t get hit and calling [the lesbian in the altercation] a man.”

Collins, however, said that the PEO on the tapes who said she was fine and wasn’t hit was Hollingshead, who did not claim workers compensation or accuse Schaffer of injuring her.

“It took me a long time to figure out who was talking,” she said, noting that Cameron was distraught when making the call and passed the phone to Hollingshead. “We were listening to the tape preparing for the trial, and Ashley said, ‘That’s me.’”

Overall, Collins said that the PEOs felt like they were just doing their job by enforcing parking regulations, and that they were “targeted for this by Diana. They felt it was retaliation.’

“And that’s what this case is all about: parking enforcement officers doing their job,” she said.

Outside of the courtroom, Schaffer said that two other aspects of her case were mishandled, first by Officer Tim Stumm who arrested her, and then by the jail that booked her. Stumm, she said, told her that he smelled alcohol on her breath and accused her of drinking and driving, which she had not been doing. (Collins said that Stumm mentions smelling alcohol when he and Schaffer were in the squad car, but that this never came up during the trial). She also said that the crime scene unit refused to allow her husband to take pictures of the truck before moving it to a nearby church parking lot to take their own photos.

Neither Collins nor DA Lohra Miller said they knew why, or even if, this had occurred.

“I don’t know if the officer said one way or another if he allowed or disallowed [Schaffer’s husband to take photographs].

But the reason why they took it to the parking lot was for better lighting,” said Collins.

When she arrived at the jail, Schaffer

said that she was made to wait hours before being booked, even though there were no others waiting to be processed. In addition to jail staff calling her names for supposedly having injured an officer, she said she was double-billed on bail — $20,000 instead of $10,000. Her bail record shows that this was the case, and that the $10,000 was eventually refunded.

“But in order to get it back [pre-trial services] said I had to go to anger management classes for six Saturdays,” she said.

“I had to call in every day to check in and I couldn’t leave the state, and I wasn’t supposed to drink any alcohol. Those were the conditions of me getting my money back and it took me months to get my money back.”

Indeed, the bail record shows that Schaffer’s husband posted $20,000 in bail on Dec. 15, 2008. It shows that the excess amount was refunded Feb. 9, 2009.

“The court can authorize bail to be posted in addition to other requirements that are supposed to help assure the court while you’re awaiting trial that you’re notD presenting a danger to the community,” Miller explained. When asked why Schaf-r fer would have been made to take angert management courses, she said that herh office typically didn’t get involved in pre-i trial service matters. t “I don’t know the facts of this specificb case, but it may be that the court ordereda that she be released to pre-trial services,r and part of the condition for her release was an anger management course,” she said.

Even though Schaffer was eventually found not guilty, she said that the trial took an enormous toll on her family and on her, particularly because she had been accepted into the University of Utah’s law school shortly before the incident at the downtown rally. What upsets her most about the case, she said, is the fact that so many city and county personnel were called against her, and the pressure put upon her to make a plea.

“I want people to know what kind of things happen and can happen,” she said.

“It was like the prosecutors went into the office and said, ‘who wants to make some overtime?’”

Since her legal battle began, Schaffer said that she had met many city and county residents who she said had faced or were facing charges that involved either poor police work, pressures from the DA’s office to accept a plea, or charges in which several city and county employees were called against them.

One such person was D.J. Bell. Bell, a gay man, faced his own legal battle in 2008 and 2009 when a neighbor accused him of kidnapping her children. After she returned the children to her house, she and other family members entered Bell’s house and beat him and his partner, Dan Fair. Bell, who faced up to 30 years in prison on burglary and kidnapping charges, was found not guilty in 2009.

“This is a disgusting travesty of justice, a huge waste of taxpayer money, and there is something that does not sit right about the fact that there are several people in varying degrees of local authority involved,

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ranging from city employees, to officers of the law, to court employees who write the hearing transcripts, and so on,” wrote Bell in a now-deleted Facebook post. “Because the plaintiff is a city employee, there has been a lot of pressure to pursue charges against this innocent woman. … She has refused several plea deals including a mise

demeanor “leaving the scene,” because she is innocent. There was no “scene” to be left; unless you count the one where a lesbian was being harassed by a meter maid, and Diana told her to knock it off.”

“I think this problem is a lot bigger than me or D.J.,” said Schaffer. “It’s not necessarily an LGBT issue, it’s an issue of an incompetence, and that’s probably the nicest thing I can say about the prosecutor and DA’s office. I don’t know what will fix it.”

Similar criticisms have been leveled at Miller’s office, including by attorneys Sim Gill and Greg Skordas, both of whom ran campaigns to challenge Miller at the ballot box this November (of the two, only Gill will be going on).

Miller, however, said that her office was simply doing its job.

“Our office filing standards are to look at admissible evidence and to determine that there is a reasonable likelihood of success at a trial,” she said. “We don’t file charges unless we believe that the person committed the crime.”

Although Miller’s office has touted its toughness on crime, including its 70 percent conviction rate in domestic violence cases, Miller said that convictions are not “another notch on the belt.” “[Schaffer’s case] is an example of where the system works,” she said. “I would’ve said that if it was a conviction — that ultimately we trust in the jury system and we agree with the jury’s verdicts.” Q

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local news Utah Primary Races Draw Great Gay Interest Two openly-gay candidates are vying head-to-head for the Democratic nod for Salt Lake County Council District 1 seats while two very gay-friendly candidates go after the Utah House 25 seat vacated by Christine Johnson. JoSelle Vanderhooft interviews each to help you decide among them.

SALT LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1

Arlyn Bradshaw: Grass Roots Growth Arlyn Bradshaw’s campaign logo isn’t like the typical stars and stripes seen during election years. His posters, T-shirts and stickers all display a spreading, leafy tree done in natural greens and browns. While he chose the plant because of his pro-envi-

Arlyn Bradshaw ronmental stance, Bradshaw says that it also symbolizes his campaign for Salt Lake County Council’s coveted District 1 seat.

“The logo also shows the roots of the tree and I think that symbolizes my roots in the community, my desire to spread grass roots involvement in the community and in making our government better,” said Bradshaw, who is facing labor activist Cal Noyce in a June 22 primary. In an unusual turn of events for Utah politics, both contenders are openly gay.

“It kind of takes sexuality off the table in terms of making the decision of who to support. I think that’s been a benefit of the race because you can look at myself and Cal as to where we stand on the issues.”

For Bradshaw, one of the biggest issues is rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender county residents. As the Council Advisor to outgoing council chair (and District 1 councilman) Joe Hatch for the past three years, Bradshaw assisted with passage of three watershed policies in the county’s history: an adult designee program allowing county employees to cover a non-spousal family member (including a same-sex partner) on their health insurance policies, and two resolutions prohibiting job and housing discrimination against gay and transgender county residents.

If he is ultimately elected this November, Bradshaw said he will urge the council not to stop there. He would like to see the creation of a “mutual commitments registry” like that passed in Salt Lake City in 2007 which would give unmarried couples of all sexual orientations proof of cohabitation — proof they can use to get domestic partner benefits from employers who offer them.

Additionally, he would like to put pressure on the federal government to change a law that still trips up unmarried couples on the adult designee program. As Bradshaw explains it, the federal government sees the money that employers pay into the insurance premiums of employees’ non-spousal partners as taxable income. Married heterosexual couples, however, don’t face this “imputed value” tax. As the government of one of the 50 largest counties in the country, Bradshaw said that he and other councilors can “lead the charge to get some of our fellow counties on board.

“It’s unfortunate we haven’t taken the lead on it and gotten it changed with the current [Democratic] Congress,” he said.

Bradshaw was a member of the county committee that saw to the implementation of its gay and transgender-inclusive housing and employment ordinances. In addition to protecting these ordinances from legislative challenge, Bradshaw also wants to make sure that they work smoothly if or when a county resident files a complaint against an employer or landlord (so far, none have). He would also like to go a step further in urging county law to go statewide.

“As the largest government in the state other than the state government, I’d like to continue to work with the Legislature in a collaborative way but apply pressure for our state laws to mirror what we’ve been able to do in Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City,” he said. “It’s time for members of the LGBT community who don’t live [in either of these places] to also have the same benefits available to them.” Admitting that this may be a long-term goal, he added, “I think our elected gay leaders can really be trailblazers in that area.”

In addition to these protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents, Bradshaw’s website outlines goals in a number of areas covered by county government.

These include supporting Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon’s small businesses initiatives, controlling development sprawl, encouraging rehabilitation programs for criminals and supporting the county’s diversity awareness trainings. If elected, he has also promised to advocate for a number of county services, including those provided by the County Library System, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department, and its numerous parks and recreation facilities.

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“In terms of the job of a county council member [county services] are the most pertinent issues, but at times voters don’t see those as the most sexy — like paving streets and garbage collection,” he said.

“But I want to ensure continued excellence in those services and improvements. When I hear about the pool at Steiner [Aquatics Center] being dirty, I want to change that. I want to be a visible figure to people to that end, to show I will provide constituents services and I will react to their needs for county services.”

And as the tree on his campaign materials suggests, the health of Salt Lake County’s environment is never far from Bradshaw’s mind. One of the things he says he is watching closely now is Salt Lake City’s plans for the northwest quadrant, the lopsided chunk of land that cuts west from the airport, skirts the Kennecot copper mine and ends at 2100 South. Although plans for this area fall under the Salt Lake City Council’s jurisdiction, Bradshaw said that his hopes for the land — which include “no build alternatives” and creating a wetlands reserve — are the same things he wants to see in Salt Lake County. For example, Bradshaw supports the preservation of open space and would like to use voter-approved bond initiatives used to clean up the Jordan River Parkway.

He is also a proponent of alternative energy

sources, including the use of solar panels in county buildings, like those championed by Corroon, and the use of biofuels.

“What I would like to see long term is that we change the entire county fleet to clean fuel vehicles using biofuels we can produce ourselves on county land as part of an urban farming program,” he said, explaining that such a program (already in its preliminary discussion stages) would encourage the planting of biofuel crops on some open space land. In the meantime, he also supports an anti-idling policy for vehicles in the fleet, as well as expanded public transportation options, such as TRAX routes and bike trails.

“When we talk about the environment and air quality, a big detriment to the air in the [Salt Lake] Valley is automobiles,” he said. “We need to focus on increasing the density of our urban areas and urban renewal — that needs to be our focus for a growing population base.”

With years of political experience, including as the executive director of the Utah Democratic Party, Bradshaw says that he is eager to jump right into council government should he win voters’ favor on June 22.

“I am running because I love Salt Lake City and County and want to use my passion and the knowledge I’ve gained working for the county to be effective from day one and move some of these fresh ideas forward to improve our community,” he said.

“It is a good place to live and I think we can do more to make it a great place.” Q

Visit Arlyn Bradshaw’s campaign website at arlynbradshaw.com.

SALT LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1

Cal Noyce: Bringing the Community Together Having lived in Salt Lake County Council’s District 1 for 54 of his 60 years, Cal Noyce has had a lot of time to get to know its neighborhoods and its people. Many of them, in fact, were among his most raucous supporters at the Salt Lake County Democratic Convention earlier this month. And many more

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have endorsed his campaign for the coveted council seat, the Democratic nomination for which Noyce will face challenger Arlyn Bradshaw in a June 22 primary election.

Noyce said it’s this connection to the community — and the current political trend favoring candidates who are new to governing bodies — that make him the stronger candidate.

“I think what I bring to the county council is a connection to the people. I’m not part of the county council insider group,” he said. “I’ve known [current District 1 councilman] Joe Hatch for years. I’ve known [at large council members] Randy Horiuchi and Jim Bradley for years. I know [at large councilwoman] Jenny Wilson because all those folks have come to me seeking [labor] endorsements over the years.”

“But at the same time I think in the political climate we have now people are saying we don’t want those four- to five-term folks in office anymore,” he added.

Like Bradshaw, Noyce is also openly gay, a fact which makes this a historic primary in Utah politics. Before his 2010 campaign, he served gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans in an area where their concerns are often neglected or outright ignored: organized labor. He is the founder of the Utah Coalition of LGBT Union Activists and Supporters and co-

founder of Pride at Work, a constituency group of the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations which officially became a part of the organization in 1999 after a somewhat long road to recognition. Among other things, the group advocates against anti-gay and antitransgender employment discrimination and for labor contracts that include equal health care benefits and leave of absence standards.

“Union folks are always interested in organizing the unorganized,” he said. “[In the 1990s] a lot of LGBT people I talked to didn’t associate labor unions with getting rights as gay and lesbian people, and I thought we needed to do something to start reaching out to that community.”

Naturally, Noyce plans on bringing this experience to the Salt Lake County Council seat if he wins the primary and the November election. Here, he said he will make sure that the county keeps its recently-enacted ordinances that prohibit housing and employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

“If we lose the Democratic majority [in the council] there’s a possibility they could be changed,” he said.

Noyce said that he did not have plans to pursue any other gay or transgender-related ordinances if elected to office. Rather, he said continuing dialogue and relationships with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender constituents, and with city and county officials is the best next step in making Salt Lake County a more friendly place for its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents.

“I was young once too and wanted everything and wanted it yesterday, but I’ve learned because of my experience in politics that isn’t the way it happens generally,” he said. “You’ve got to start making the network with people and through education you get people to see that gay rights isn’t the issue, equal rights is. It should be no different for the LGBT community than it is for the straight community. But that isn’t something that you do [overnight].

That also ties into the labor movement where there’s a time and place for picketing outside a building, and there’s the time when you’re sitting in a conference room and working issues out.”

True to his labor background, one of Noyce’s main concerns is the counties’ workers. In bad economies, he said, layoffs are the first things that employers consider.

“That’s not the answer,” he said.

He is also focused on development and redevelopment in his district, which encom-

passes most of Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake City.

“The county’s always been good with recreational facilities,” he said. “I would continue that because I think that’s helping economic development.”

When it comes to the question of development in District 1 — particularly towards the wetlands-heavy north end of the Salt Lake Valley — Noyce said that he will be careful, if elected, to balance environmental needs with economic growth. For example, he sees potential in a proposal to build soccer fields in this area.

“There are a lot of family businesses out this way. I think soccer fields going in out there would mean that people will be coming to games, which will bring money to the area,” he said.

However, Noyce added he is conscious that the land near the airport and in the Rose Park area floods easily and that preservation is an important issue. To that effect, he said that an alternate candidate for development could be Swede Town, the informal name for the area near Beck Street and Victory Road on the valley’s west side.

“To me that’s an area where redevelopment could take place with residents’ permission,” he said. “Right off Beck Street would be great for access to get downtown or to go north to catch I-15.”

In addition to serving in a number of other community-related posts, including as vice president of the Jordan Meadows Community Council, and a former board member of the United Way and member of the Salt Lake Police Civilian Review Board, Noyce is also known for bringing his community together in other ways. Recently, he brought his neighborhood together to create a park. Here, veterans, boy scouts and members of Colors for Change, a group for at-risk youth, laid sod and planted trees.

“That gives you ownership,” he said. “It becomes your park which means you’re more likely to take care of it.”

If elected, he plans on getting people involved in the daily business of government as well.

“This isn’t a stepping stone for me to someday run for the Congress or governor,” said Noyce. “I’m 60 years old, I’m on the downhill side of life. This is something that, as other people have pointed out to me, maybe I can help make a difference for a term or two and that would be it. I don’t have any misconceptions about my political ambitions.” Q

Visit Cal Noyce online at calnoyce.com.

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local news HOUSE DISTRICT 25

Joel Briscoe: Building Sustainable Communities One of the hottest races in Utah’s mid-term election is the one for House District 25.

After openly lesbian Christine Johnson announced her resignation as representative of the heavily Democratic area, four Democrats made a bid for the seat. Earlier this month, delegates at the State Democratic Convention chose two of them to

Joel Briscoe square off in a primary on June 22.

Former history and English teacher Joel Briscoe is one of the candidates.

“I think to show proper respect to Chris Johnson, no one replaces her. We would succeed her,” said Briscoe, who has also served as the president of the Salt Lake City Board of Education.

Because Briscoe identifies as straight, he said he “cannot take [Johnson]’s place” as a gay legislator representing gay and transgender constituents. “But in terms of being supportive of treating everyone in Utah with compassion and legal equality and dignity, I will be a firm and consistent vote and voice.”

On the matter of legislation addressing the legal equality and dignity of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, Briscoe said that he would be happy to run any legislation to that effect requested by statewide gay and transgender rights group Equality Utah or any other related organization.

“I think that there are probably a number of Legislators that would be happy to run that legislation, and I would be happy to be the sponsor if they thought I was the good person to carry it,” he said.

Briscoe added that he had been supportive of Equality Utah’s legislative push for gay and transgender equality, known as the Common Ground Initiative (which he

calls “a good start”), and supportive of gay and transgender students as a teacher. He was the first sponsor of Bountiful High School’s gay-straight alliance.

“That’s something I’d do 1,000 times over for that kid,” said Briscoe of the gay student who asked him to sponsor the club, which provides a safe space for queer students and their allies. “No one prepares for the day a student passes them a note that says, ‘Mr. Briscoe, I’m gay and I’d like to form a GSA.’ That’s something you never think is going to happen to you but it did.”

As an educator, Briscoe said he has seen firsthand the deleterious effects that bullying has on students of all sexual orientations and gender identities. He would be willing, he said, to run anti-bullying legislation to “make schools safe places for all students.” Other classroom issues that concern him are the lack of “comprehensive sex ed” for students and the “politicization of schools” — which he sees in a recent decision in Texas to de-emphasize the importance of the U.S. labor and civil rights movements in classroom textbooks.

He is also alarmed at the Legislature’s lack of funding for public schools, even as class sizes increase, and 400,000 students ready to enter the system this fall.

These are just some of the issues that Briscoe says Democratic delegates and residents of District 25 have contacted him to discuss.

“There’s an awful lot of anger and frustration over wasting legislative time on states’ rights message bills,” he said, noting that several of these appeared on the Senate and House floors during this year’s general session. If elected, he said he would speak out against these.

“I think you have to expose them for what they are, which is political ploys,” he said. “Why aren’t we talking about people we’ve cut form Medicare or how we can cover more people for health insurance, or how to fund kids coming to school next year, or the environment? There are so many important issues to discuss and I think the Democratic Party should be united in pointing out alternatives.”

“Maybe we should set up a clock and keep track of the time we spend talking about bills that our attorneys say are likely to fail in court or face severe legal challenges,” he added.

Other issues Briscoe wishes the Legislature would spend more time discussing include protecting Utah’s environment — and cleaning up the Wasatch Front’s notoriously dirty air. Briscoe has a number of ideas to help cut down on pollution, which include lowering UTA and TRAX fares on high pollution “red burn” days, and giving more state funds to mass transit than to road building. He also advocates putting Utah on a “smart” energy grid, where meters would give home owners up to the second read outs of how much energy they’ve used, and how their energy consumption

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rises or drops.

“It helps people control their own energy use, and I think the state could be much more progressive in making a more progressive power grid,” he said.

Overall, Briscoe said that he will fight to make the legislature more accountable — both to the public through supporting the creation of an independent Ethics Commission, and to the process of government itself.

To illustrate this point, he mentioned the State Legislature’s refusal to consider one of Johnson’s most discussed bills — legislation that would extend housing and employment protections to all gay and

transgender Utahns. The bill did not make it out of legislative committees each time Johnson ran it. In the absence of a statewide law, individual cities and counties are passing similar ordinances of their own. In response, some Republican legislators threatened to pass legislation that would have nullified these efforts.

“Shouldn’t those cities be allowed to do that?” asked Briscoe. “If Orem doesn’t want one [for example], they can be a hold out. But why should the state government come in and nanny cities that want to be progressive?” Q Visit Joel Briscoe’s campaign at votebriscoe.com.

HOUSE DISTRICT 25

Anthony Kaye: Education, Ethics, Economics According to many Utahns, and residents of House District 25 in particular, former district representative, Christine Johnson, has left a challenging legacy for any successor to carry on. Perhaps this challenge — and the heavily Democratic composition of the Salt Lake City district — was the attraction for the four Democrats

Anthony Kaye who ran for the seat earlier this year. Now, weeks after the State Democratic Convention, only two candidates remain. A primary election on June 22 will decide the winner and, if the district votes as it typically has, a new representative.

Attorney Anthony “Tony” Kaye says that he’s up for the job.

“Christine is to be thanked for all her hard work,” he said. “She did a really good job in representing the LGBT community and House District 25 altogether.”

Although Kaye, like all four initial Democratic challengers, identifies as straight, he said that he will have no problem picking up where Johnson — who is openly lesbian — left off when it comes to supporting equal rights for Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population.

“This is basically the civil rights fight of our generation,” he said. “Our Legislature

is really going to be a difficult nut to crack, but we have to continue to place LGBT equality issues in front of them.”

“My plan is to try and change their hearts and minds over time so they will do the right thing,” he added, noting that the Legislature did eventually “do the right thing” when it came to passing a hate crimes bill — 10 years after it first appeared before them.

If voters ultimately choose him to succeed Johnson, Kaye said that he will reintroduce the former Representative’s Antidiscrimination Act Amendments legislation, which seeks to extend employment and housing protections for gay and transgender people statewide. To date, four municipal governments, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Park City and Logan, have enacted such protections.

Kaye also promised to support legislation by Sen. Ben McAdams, D-Salt Lake City, that would give same-sex partners the right to sue in cases of wrongful death.

He said he would also co-sponsor and advocate for a bill by Rep. Rebecca ChavezHouck, D-Salt Lake City, that would reverse a 2000 ban on gay couples adopting children.

“My kids have the benefit of two legally recognized parents and so should [the children] of LGBT people,” he said.

In 2011, two additional issues related to gay and transgender people may appear before the Legislature: A resolution by Rep. Jen Seelig, D-Salt Lake City, in support of President Barack Obama’s extension of hospital visitation rights to patients’ same-sex partners, and a proposal to fund a shelter for homeless youth. Kaye has also promised his support for these, and thinks that the latter will be particularly palatable to the Republican-dominated government.

Overall, Kaye says that his campaign emphasizes three things: the economy and education and ethics reform. Regarding the first, he says that Utah’s economy will be stronger if the Legislature can provide small business incentives.

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For example: Fixing Utah’s often confusing liquor laws which Kaye sees as Utah’s greatest economic stumbling block.

“It really in some ways sounds kind of silly but it’s not,” he said. “The fact we don’t have any more [liquor] licenses for restaurants is a really big problem because restaurants are the quintessential business. They don’t succeed financially without being able to sell alcohol. Our liquor laws make us look like a backwater and that drives away tourism and people who want to bring business here” including much-needed managerial positions.

And when people don’t want to move their businesses to Utah, Kaye continued, that is money lost for the state’s school system, which has the lowest spending per student in the nation. In order to change that, Kaye said that the Legislature must stop “ransacking” the education fund for other purposes, such as “questionable tax breaks and frivolous lawsuits.”

He also said that the Legislature needs to put an end to a number of ethics abuses, including what many have called the gerrymandering of its congressional districts.

“This is a census year so the Legislature is going to redraw our [political] maps,” said Kaye. “That’s going to need some very strong voices up on the Hill who can argue the law of districting or mapping and present a pretty credible argument that if the Legislature doesn’t give Salt Lake County its own congressional district that they will face a lawsuit on the issue.”

The bulk of Salt Lake County is currently included in the puzzle-piece shaped Congressional District 2, which includes the bulk of Eastern Utah including San Juan County.

“The Supreme Court has said in the last few years that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional,” Kaye continued. “They haven’t established a test for it but Utah is one of the places that could be a perfect test case. It’s potentially abusive. It’s quelching people’s First Amendment right to vote.”

As a lawyer, Kaye said that his expertise would be especially valuable in the Utah House of Representatives, where only one other Democratic member has a legal background. His experience would be useful, said Kaye, in helping to draft and amend laws that would be “eminently usable by the public” and in helping to quash laws that are unconstitutional.

“We’re facing unprecedented challenges right now to whether the federal government has the authority that effect interstate commerce,” he said, referring to a plan by Utah Republicans to make Utah “opt out” of national health care reform.

“It would be really helpful for our Legislature to have people in office who can understand really complicated legal issues and put an end to the thoughtless approach that Republicans have been taking toward a lot of issues that have been established for a long time.” Q

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snaps & slaps SNAP: Logan City In a number of surprise upsets — including a jump forward, then backwards in time on the council agenda — Logan has become the fourth in the state to protect gay and transgender people from housing and employment discrimination.

But the most surprising thing of all?

Many did not see Logan coming in ahead of several “more liberal” cities and counties that are currently considering ordinances modeled after Salt Lake City’s groundbreaking 2009 efforts. The takeaway lesson here isn’t just that allies and fair-minded people can be found in all corners of the state, but that those allies and fair-minded people can get things done in all corners of the state — even if that corner is a solidly “conservative” one. We heartily snap at Logan’s City Council and the hardworking folks of all orientations and gender identities who brought the ordinances to their attention and worked to make them a reality.

SNAP: Claudia Bradshaw

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I HAVE TO GIVE A BIG thank you for voting me your favorite QSaltLake columnist. I am genuinely flattered by my 2010 Fabby Award, but considering I hadn’t written a column in months, just exactly what were you trying to say? Hmmmm?

The fine folks at Q handed out the Fabbies at the stunning Mountain Land Design store in South Salt Lake and let me tell you, the queens were in full-on, window shopping, drool mode (me included). It was like setting cats loose in a catnip factory! Seriously, muffins, I could have spent my entire next year’s salary on hammered copper wash basins and forged door knobs. Oh, and don’t even get me started on the rustic kitchen cabinets with the woven wire doors ...OMG! OMG! OMG! I just wanted to rush home and take a sledge hammer to the kitchen and put down wide plank distressed hardwood floors everywhere.

Unfortunately, cherubs, it’s classy little soirees like these that bring my white trash sensibilities bubbling to the surface faster than BP crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Let me explain. As part of the festivities, Michael and the Q kids invited some of the best local restaurants to pair wines with delicious bite

size (and by bite size I mean if you have the bite of a bulimic Asian preschooler) samples of their popular entrees. Don’t get me wrong, the food was lovingly prepared and varied

My criteria for judging wine is this… ‘do I need to put the box in the fridge’ and ‘does it go with pork rinds?’ from small brushetta thingies, to small pate thingies, and even small ravioli thingies, but I swear to God I have had communions with bigger portion sizes!

The highlight of the spread for me was a table of miniature cupcakes that looked as

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gorgeous as they tasted. Oh, but wait ... I forgot to tell you the strange part. When you walked into the place, you were given a small plastic cup with M&M’s in it. The idea was that you voted for your favorite pairing of wine and food by placing an M&M in a cup at your favorite stations, and then they would tabulate the winners at the end of the night.

Well, that was the plan anyway. Sad to say, pumpkins, being the husky growing girl that I am, I had the serious munchies and ate my votes before I had even visited my second tasting area. I know, I know, you can’t take me anywhere.

But in fairness Liebchens, I could only have given half a vote anyway because I have absolutely no idea what I am doing when it comes to the wine part of a wine/ food pairing. Seriously, my criteria for judging wine is this, ”do I need to put the box in the fridge” and “does it go with pork rinds?”

That’s about it. Trust me, I am a lot of things, petals, but complicated is not one of them.

After grabbing my award and giving Sister Dottie a big hug, I whisked up to Ben Williams, Courtney (Petunia Pap-smear), and Ben’s adorable friend whose name I can never remember, and just like that, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Stretch Pants fled to the Amber Restaurant on 33rd South for some generous portions of greasy comfort food paired perfectly with powdered iced tea that probably came from a 30-pound sack.

And I have to say, darlings, it was divine!

Ciao Babies! Q You can see Ruby Ridge and the Matrons of Mayhem in all of their polyester glory at Third Friday Bingo (7 p.m. on the third Friday of every month) at First Baptist Church (777 S. 1300 East).

It’s a great day when we can’t find much to complain about in this section, and one of the things we’re definitely not complaining about is Claudia Bradshaw. In the wake of a policy change that allows gay-straight alliances in all of Washington County’s high schools, Bradshaw, Southern Utah’s PFLAG president, held a gathering for families of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. Its goal was to give parents and guardians a safe space to ask for advice and to deal with their feelings around their children’s coming out. Given that family support has a tremendous bearing on the health and safety of queer youth, helping them become positive, accepting places is some of the most important work queer people and their allies can be doing. Kudos to Bradshaw for tirelessly stepping up to the challenge.

SNAP: America Forever Materials for poorly spelled and hideously designed anti-gay fliers and signs? Roughly $50. Justifying the need for the ordinances you’re protesting by booing gay people and going off on a bizarre rant in front of Logan’s City Council? Priceless.

There’s a reason why four out of five QSaltLake readers prefer this anti-gay group to The Sutherland Institute, which, for all its failings, is at least somewhat more difficult to mock. Note: We actually sort of just made up that four out of five statistic. But feel free to correct us if we’re wrong, anyway.

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not identified in either category), let’s put this one in the “did that just happen?” file.

On Thursday, May 13, former First Lady Laura Bush appeared on Larry King Live.

In a surprising move, she announced her own deviation from one of the most fundamental policy stands of her husband’s presidency — and one of the most fundamental issues of the right wing: She endorsed same-sex marriage. Here is what she had to say: “I think there are a lot of people who have trouble coming to terms with that because they see marriage as traditionally between a man and a woman, but I also know that when couples are committed to each other and love each other that they ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone has.”

Former First Lady Laura Bush, wife of former President George W. Bush, neoconservative icon ... yep, she said it. I have to admit, I watched the interview with a great deal of skepticism. Upon hearing that statement my first thought (after, of course, the “Holy shit, did she really say that?”) was to wonder why she didn’t say it 10 years ago. Is it part of the conservative culture that you don’t speak out in opposition to your husband, or was it for some political reason, like the First Lady can’t disagree with the President on a matter of such magnitude? Maybe both, maybe neither. We’ll probably never really know why she waited to speak out, or even why she finally chose to do so.

But regardless of her motivation, she has chosen to speak. In doing so she has opened a pretty good sized can of worms for the right wing bigots who continue to seek the oppression of Americans on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.

In the days since the interview, the blogosphere has lit up. In the time between my writing this piece and its publication, I’m sure the noise will only continue to grow. And rightfully so. Former First Lady Bush has, albeit belatedly, not only helped to cast more light on a fundamental human rights abuse present in most of these United States, she also demonstrated that there is hope in the least expected places.

While we tend to focus on the extremists on the right, the zealots that will vehemently suppress anyone who doesn’t absolutely agree with their knee-jerk dogma, we are seeing that understanding can grow. There is a silent majority in this nation (maybe not in this state), a group

of conservatives who are willing to learn about other people, their lives, their beliefs and their thoughts. There are people out there who want to understand, and that understanding will spread.

I will be the first to admit that I’m not the most patient of people. I was opposed to the “truce” that was struck between Rep. Christine Johnson and the Utah Legislature’s GOP Caucus to table all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender-related bills during the last general session. I was disappointed, but understood, when the Park City Council decided not to exceed the protections granted by Salt Lake City’s antidiscrimination housing and employment ordinances. I am still disappointed that President Obama hasn’t forced through the revocation of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

And then something like this happens.

Is it a monumental change in policy? No. It is actually something even more fundamental. It represents a change that is on the winds — perhaps slow winds, but winds nonetheless. It is a change of attitude, a sign that there are people who are beginning to understand the feelings and desires of people, a sign that there is rationality and thoughtfulness on “the other side.”

Remember folks, legislation only goes so far. You can’t change someone’s attitude with a law. You can enforce equality in certain circumstances, but at the end of the day, real change is going to come when people are willing to try to understand one another. While Mrs. Bush’s understanding certainly doesn’t accomplish the goal of equality for all Americans, it does signal that there are those amongst the political “conservatives” who want to help with that understanding. Perhaps with this announcement there will be more conservatives willing to express a similar desire in the face of their more zealous and outspoken political allies.

Remember the immortal words of Robert F. Kennedy: “Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lots of others ... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current than can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

We can thank Laura Bush for another ripple of hope. Q Bob Henline is a straight man. Don’t hold that against him — he was born that way. He is also a professional author and editor and published a best-selling political manifesto entitled “Constitutional Inequality.” His blog can be read at nonpart.org.

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Editor, In a link on Daily Queer News I recall mention of the FRC saying that homosexual is only an adjective, not a noun. You have a homosexual act, you are not homosexual.

That happens to be what ONE and HIC have always said and believed. It is based on the work of Dr. Hooker and Dr. Kinsey.

My personal definition of a homosexual person is one who has over 50 percent of his sex acts, by choice, with someone of the same sex. That also covers those who have no act, or dream about having the act, and does not include someone who has a homosexual act but would rather have the act with someone of the opposite sex. If the chosen partner could be either male or female (at 50 percent), then the person is bisexual.

The fact is that all of us have some of the same acts, anal and/or oral, so the person we have those acts with defines whether it is homosexual or heterosexual.

I have also said that if someone is blind, and doesn’t feel the other person, they would not know if the person performing the oral act is male or female.

When those who seem to not be comfortable being homosexually oriented seek some excuse, they start talking about love.

But it does not matter why we choose the partner. Our civil rights don’t depend on making the ‘right” choice, just as our civl

rights don’t depend on being a certain race or choosing a certain religion.

Two people of the same sex could love each other but not be sexually attracted to each other. And two people could want to marry even though they are of the opposite sex OR of the same sex and have no sexual attraction, but have an economic or other reason. That is why all marriage laws give special rights that are denied to single people and are unjust. And true conservatives should be the first to get the state and federal governments out of making private decisions for citizens, which the Loving case did when it said the state could not decide the race of a marital partner.

The FRC is wrong when it tries to thus say that homosexual Americans can and should “change.’ That also invades our right to privacy. Why hasn’t anyone spoken out to support the 9th Amendment, which this nation’s founders wisely gave us? Anti-homosexuals, including, sadly, many closet queens, say we can and should “change,” but we should proudly say, “well, maybe we can change, but we don’t want to and in America we decide who (adults) we have sex with and love, not the religious fanatics or ignorant ‘experts.’” This is 2010, and all Americans are closer to total equal/civil rights. Deal with it. (You will never “get back our country.”

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These are the queers that the Christian Right is warning America about.

They offer an oppositional response to heterosexual tyranny. They demand dynamic social change.

The following are the most dangerous queer authors I’ve read. Their ideas dare to transform the world — offending conser-

vatives and liberals alike.

10) ‘Selling Out’, Alexandra Chasin (2001) A thoughtful critique of the gay-oriented niche consumer market that perpetuates the very economic system that disenfranchises women, people of color and the poor.

“There are gay men and lesbians for whom sexuality is not the primary source of their difference from the universal ideal; the insistency on the primacy of sexual identity

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9) ‘Nobody Passes’, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (2006) This raw collection of essays violates everything we believe about power and identity. Mattilda wants to “make people reach too far, to roll into critical, complicated, dissonant essays that grumble with uncomfortable revelation.” You will meet Nico, the mixed-race, transgender butch defying the “tyranny of identity,” and Stacey, the BDSM feminist who proclaims, “I have been endlessly educated and I still yearn for a firm grip on my throat.”

8) ‘The Invention of Heterosexuality’, Jonathan Ned Katz (1995) Before the 1900s, “people did not conceive of a social universe polarized into heteros and homos.” Katz argues that the “heterosexual ethic” is actually a modern invention. “Heterosexual and homosexual refer to a historically specific system of domination — of socially unequal sexes and eroticisms. It makes as much sense, then, to look for the cause of heterosexual or homosexual feeling in biology as it does to look for the physiological determinants of the slave’s mentality or the master’s. Biological determinism is misconceived intellectually, as well as politically loathsome.

For it places our problems in our bodies, not in our society.”

7) ‘Sexual Fluidity’, Lisa Diamond (2009) Discussions centered on the origins of homosexuality are often reductive appeals to “nature” or “nurture.” Diamond’s research challenges old arguments and expands our notions of desire, behavior and identity. “Our ability to understand the complex phenomenon of sexual orientation and its multiple manifestations in men and women at different ages and in different cultures and contexts depends directly on our willingness to confront those aspects of orientation that most confound us.”

6) ‘God Hates Fags’, Michael Cobb (2006) Religious hate speech has positioned queers as the “quasi-enemies of the state.”

The United States “continues to evolve into a coercive, extralegal empire that needs enemies inside and outside its borders.” For the Christian moralist, we queers embody the “social ills and impurities” of the nation. Cobb argues that queers should embrace hate speech to inspire a new radical politics.

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5) ‘The Queer Child’, Kathryn Stockton (2009) “This book scouts the conceptual force of ghostly gayness in the figure of the child.”

More specifically, the fictional gay children that haunt all childhoods. As we explore the “sideways” growth of the protogay children of literature, Stockton helps us recognize our own lateral movements through life. Where do we grow when we can’t “grow up” into legal queer adults?

4) ‘Homocons’, Richard Goldstein (2003)

Goldstein skewers the conservative rhetoric of “the new gay mainstream” promulgated by gay authors like Andrew Sullivan, Bruce Bawer and Camille Paglia, who Goldstein describes as “attack queers.”

“If there’s a motive for this assault, it has less to do with gay rights than with assimilation. Job number one for homocons is promoting the entrance of gay people into liberal society. But this deal comes with a price. It requires gays to maintain the illusion that we’re just like straights, and precisely because its image is a pretense, it must be upheld by shaming those who won’t play the part. Attack queers, target these unassimilable homos, thereby affirming the integrity of heterosexual norms.”

3) ‘Love the Sin’, Ann Pellegrini and Janet R. Jakobsen (2004)

The authors reject “tolerance” as a desirable social condition for queers. They argue that tolerance reinforces hierarchies of inequality. Love the Sin is an unapologetic appeal to value sexual freedom. “If a lesbian or gay does good, then the good it performs is not for homosexuals alone.” In their book, sexual and religious freedom come together to provide a “deeply ethical vision of the work sex can do to open up new horizons of possibility between people.”

2) ‘Smash the Church, Smash the State’, edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca (2009)

This subversive collection of essays from the early queer voices of the ’60s and ’70s will both shock and inspire. Radical trailblazers from The Gay Liberation Front, Third World Gay Revolution and Dyketastics “were not looking for marriage and corporate jobs or acceptance into the military or the church. They were into communal living and multipartnered sexual arrangements outside of the jurisdiction of the state and the family.” These are the writings of revolutionaries. “We truly believed that a united front with all oppressed peoples would help us create a better world, one built on inclusion and an equal distribution of wealth and resources.”

1) ‘‘Twilight of Equality, Lisa Duggan

(2004) Queer liberation collides with “neoliberalism” — the ideology of unregulated freemarket global capitalism. It’s a philosophy with a major objective: dismantle the progressive social gains of the New Deal, feminism and the civil rights movement.

Duggan illustrates how mainstream gay activists are now buying into the larger neoliberal project. We no longer hold a “vision of a collective, democratic public culture, or of an ongoing engagement with contentious, cantankerous queer politics.

Instead we have been administered a kind of political sedative — we get marriage and the military, then we go home and cook dinner, forever.” Duggan reminds us that there will never be meaningful queer equality without redistributive economic justice first. Q

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ELENA Kagan is totally a lesbian.

Debating whether Elena Kagan prefers having sex with ‘Tab A’ as opposed to ‘Slot B’ is as useful as wishing that Richard Simmons would finally settle down and marry a nice Jewish girl. Ask any gay man or woman on the street, and they will tell you that there’s a certain je ne sais quoi about her that makes it very clear that Kagan dates women (je ne sais quoi, by the way, is French for “gaydar.”) Kagan is the current Solicitor General, a former Harvard law professor, the nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, and arguably one of the most brilliant women in the legal world. And she probably brings a U-Haul with her when she goes on dates with women because that’s what lesbians do.

So what are we going to do about it?

As it turns out, nobody really knows. Conservatives believe that Kagan should disclose her sexual orientation. The gay community believes that Kagan should not disclose her sexual orientation. Conservatives believe that Kagan should not disclose her sexual orientation.

And the gay community believes that Kagan should disclose her sexual orientation.

Everybody wants to know Kagan’s personal life, but nobody can quite agree whether her personal life is or is not or could be or is maybe or is probably not or is kind of is relevant. In fact, on the day of her announcement New York magazine pointed out that “At the moment, on Google Trends, Obama’s Supreme Court justice nominee Elena Kagan’s name appears twice in the top 20 searches. The second time it appears, the term is ‘kagan supreme court.’ The first? ‘elena kagan personal life.’“ Clearly the public, and particularly those in the political sphere, are interested in what Elena Kagan does behind closed doors. The focus on Kagan’s “personal life” has been more intense than on that of any other judge or nomination in recent history, and not just because the very image of Antonin Scalia having sex is enough to make the average adult cry and/or sterile.

Nobody cares whether the other justices are married, divorced or single. But the fact that Kagan may be partnered to a woman somehow makes all the difference in the world. However, it’s worth asking: Has Kagan brought this upon herself by remaining silent about who she shares her bed with?

The entire controversy over Kagan’s supposed sexual orientation has raised two very important questions, for both sides of

the political spectrum: • Conservatives, and particularly the religious right, have long preferred that gay men and women remain in the closet, because, as they contend, such private behavior should remain restricted to the bedroom.

Are conservatives being hypocritical when they say that Kagan’s sexuality does matter?

• Liberals, and particularly the gay community, have long argued that gay men and women should come out of the closet and be a good example of courage to others. Are liberals being hypocritical when they say that Kagan’s sexuality doesn not matter?

The Christian News Wire recently published a story, by the infamous Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth, with the headline “If Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian, She Should Say So because the Public Has a Right to Know.” No ambiguity there. Are we to assume that conservatives prefer their gay men and women to be silent and closeted ... unless they are put in a position of power?

On the other hand, a recent article by Richard Kim in The Nation, the self-described “flagship of the left,” argued that “Elena Kagan Is Not Gay” because “Kagan does not have a spouse (man or woman) and that she has never identified herself as gay.” Kim goes on to say, “I don’t know if Elena Kagan sleeps with women or men. I don’t know if she sleeps with anyone at all. I don’t care.”

So the take-away message from all of this is: • Conservatives want gay people to remain in the closet, unless they’re being promoted to a position of power.

• Liberals want gay people to come out of the closet, unless they’re being promoted to a position of power.

• Richard Simmons will never be promoted to a position of power if he continues to wear those awful booty shorts.

It appears that the nomination battle over Elena Kagan will reveal less about her sexual orientation, and more about the hypocrisy of those who criticize or support her.

It’s likely that someone, at some point, will question Kagan during her Senate confirmation hearings about her sexual orientation.

It’s also likely that she will be confirmed to the Supreme Court. I don’t actually know whether she’s gay or not, but whether her sexual orientation matters says a lot about the person doing the mattering.

Maybe we should focus on more important issues. Like convincing Richard Simmons to put some pants on. Q

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’LL BE STRAIGHT FOR YOU,” I TEASE my breeder friends, neighbors and family after they complain how rough it is to be in a relationship with someone who communicates on an entirely different wavelength. It’s hard to feel that bad for them when these people don’t know what it’s like to be on an entirely different wavelength than the majority of society. I say, “Oh, poor baby, I’m sorry he forgot your six-month anniversary.”

Meanwhile, I lost my job, got kicked out of my apartment, and was arrested for the crime of kissing my girlfriends’ cheek.

Despite all that, even if I could go back to the pre-existence, I’d tell my guardian angel the same thing: “I want to be a lesbian.”

A huge shocker, I know. Especially since, for 21 years of my short life, all my dreams consisted of a large brick house with an indoor swimming pool, a grand ceremony in the multi-million dollar Temple, a fancy BMW and children who looked just like me. Luckily, the stars I wished upon and the pennies I threw into fountains didn’t possess any semblance of magic.

If I could go back to the preexistence, I’d tell my guardian angel the same thing: ‘I want to be a lesbian.’

I’d be lying if I said I’d trade my beat-up Chevy for a fancy BMW. I’d also be lying if I said I would trade the chance to fly to Washington, D.C and be part of the largest rally ever for equal rights for all families and individuals for an indoor swimming pool. And I’d just be making shit up if I said I would trade the opportunity to spend time with the homeless gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning youth for a gigantic brick house.

Also, I’d be acting absurd if I said I’d rather had spent my time in the Temple than locked in a hospital bed; than traveling through depressed hell dimensions and digging through my soul for spiritual answers when religious patrons told me I was evil, unworthy and better off dead. I prayed over and over for an angel to take away my lesbianism, but of course, that proved to be impossible.

But the jewels of people I’ve met in the past few years are better than any magical

coin or commercial product. The knowledge of experiencing firsthand the unyielding, courageous power of people who unbrainwashed their hearts and minds and stood alone while the raging floods and storms of the community at large threatened to tear them apart. Who fought time and time again not to take that overdose when, in that darkened room, they felt no one loved them as they are. The unbelievable sweetness of knowing there is more

than one side of Utah.

I’m glad to have escaped the prison of which entrapped me as I attended church on Sundays, Seminary on weekdays and traditional dances on Saturday. Church was a prison for me because I let it be my one and only source of people I loved and understood. It became the tunnel vision of how I saw myself, life and others, until it almost killed me.

I thank my guardian angel every day for letting me learn there is more than one story and to experience the fun, laughter and tears of another side of Utah: bingos led

by Cyber Sluts; yearly pride celebrations; candlelight vigils on Mondays; volunteering daily for the ones, like me, who have seen hell and come back; and being in the same courtroom while a loving man who was brutally beaten finally experienced some justice on Friday.

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OTHER DAY I ANSWERED MY phone and heard, “Hi, this is Jim Matheson.” It wasn’t one of those robocalls; it was actually the congressman himself. I’d like to tell you he was calling me because I’m such a mover and shaker, but the real reason is I was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention.

I assumed he was personally responding to concerns about his constituent relations that I had raised with his campaign staff in several e-mails and phone messages. But he was simply working his way down the list of delegates.

So I gave him an earful about how I contacted his constituent office last year, and was pretty much ignored — and, in particular how no one responded to my concerns about his long-time support for the Defense of Marriage Act. I finally asked Jim Matheson why he thought his family was more important than mine.

Of course, he argued that he believed no such thing and told me of his votes for ENDA and the hate crimes bill, how he favors repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and that he’s a big believer in domestic partnership legislation.

Domestic partnership legislation? Why, I asked, should Kelly and I be second-class citizens?

The funny thing is that marriage equality was never a big deal for me until I became a father. Sure, I wanted it. But it wasn’t a topic that could so easily send me into the deep end as it had during my conversation with Mr. Matheson.

When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome announced that same-sex couples could marry in the city back in 2004, Kelly

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and I saw little reason to do it. Then one night we were watching the news and among those who were married that day was a lovely lesbian couple. As they descended the grand staircase of City Hall, we noticed one of the women carrying a baby.

That’s when it hit us: We didn’t need to

I finally asked Jim Matheson why he thought his family was more important than mine. marry for us. We needed to marry for our new son. He deserved to have married parents just like other kids.

A few days later we had an appointment with the clerk to get married. My “work wife” and dear friend, Teresa, served as our witness. She cried as she videotaped the ceremony.

As we descended the grand staircase, it was our turn to be on TV: The camera focused in on the male couple with the cute baby.

It ended up that we were literally among the last few couples to get married in San Francisco. Less than an hour after our ceremony, the California Supreme Court stopped any further same-sex marriages.

So even if the returned missionary I’d wanted to marry 12 years ago came back to me and offered me his soft hands, I’d turn him away. No matter how cute his kids, sexy his wife, deep his pockets or large his house, I’d tell him, “I’m different now.”

And that I am.

I can’t wait to play with my guardian angel’s wings again soon. She won’t care what car I drive, the color of my credit card or where I get married. She won’t even care who I get married to or even if the only being I give birth to was a dog child. But, she will care who I cause to cry, who I ignore out of fear, who I turne away and who I truly love for who they are. And she’ll care the most if I care about those who feel the worst and have the least.

So, I’ll still tease those around me by saying, “I’ll be straight for you.” But, in my heart I’ll know it’s a lie. Q

A few weeks later, the justices voided all of the marriages.

We decided that one day when he was older, we’d explain to Gus the significance of our actions that day. How he had been a part of history.

Four years later, when those same justices ruled that banning same-sex marriage violated the California Constitution, we were the fathers of two sons and on the brink of moving back to Utah.

The campaign for Prop 8 was also in full swing. Proponents pleaded with voters to think of their children. The irony of their argument wasn’t lost on us. So we thought about our kids. And we decided to get married again.

We surprised our friends at a goingaway dinner held in our honor by bringing a minister with us. As we again exchanged vows while friends cried, our two children ran around us giggling. We married again even though we knew that, regardless of Prop 8’s fate, once we arrived in Utah our marriage would be null and void.

After our 2004 wedding, my parents gave us a silver platter engraved with our names and the date of our marriage. Before leaving LA we added two more dates: Our 2008 wedding, and the day we jumped a broom together back in 1988. We joke about how many more dates we’ll have to add before a marriage finally sticks.

At the Democratic convention a couple of weeks ago, Rep. Matheson spoke to the Utah Stonewall Democrats — the gay caucus. He told us about a woman he had met whose partner is in the military and due to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell they are afraid even to be seen in public together. He said it was important for him to put a face to the issue.

As he left, I took him aside. I mentioned our earlier phone conversation. I told him I was glad to hear he finds putting faces to issues important, because I wanted him to look at mine. I reminded him that after 22 years together and raising two children, the only difference between his marriage to his wife and mine to Kelly was that mine ceased to exist the moment I left California.

He didn’t say anything. I can only hope for my boys’ sake that he remembers my face. Q

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ceremony as much as the Royal Court system, which has been handing out awards since 1976 for things as lofty as “lifetime achievement awards” to “Best Bath Attendants.” It seems that almost every gay organization in this state gives out awards of some kind or another, often at banquets or other fundraising events.

It’s nice to be recognized. And a thank you is always appreciated when serving others.

I’ve never been big on awards myself.

I’ve always wondered how you can single out one individual for recognition when so many incredibly talented, dedicated people have given money — and more importantly, time — toward building up this community.

I’ve always believed in the maxim “you love who you serve,” and I’ve tried to live my life in service to Utah’s gay community. It doesn’t pay well but man oh man, I love the benefits. I’ve met some of the finest human beings gathered in one place on earth, here in the Crossroads of the West.

One award is given out at Pride Day that I’d like to let young people and those new to the community know about. This particular award is called the Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award. It’s given to honor and recognize dedication and outstanding service to Utah’s queer community by individuals, groups, or organizations.

In 1987 the Gay and Lesbian Community Council elected Donny Eastepp, co-owner of the InBetween Tavern (now Club Sound), to co-chair that year’s Gay Pride Day event.

Eastepp was also the reigning Emperor of the Royal Court. Did I mention that the Royal Court loves handing out awards?

Well, Gay Pride 1987 was the first Pride Day event under the auspices of the GLCCU, which was like a mini-United Nations of Utah’s squabbling gay and lesbian organizations and activists. Eastepp, as chair of the Pride Day Committee, was granted free reign to organize the celebration in any way he chose and within the confines of having no budget. Being emperor, however, he had connections and knew how to throw a party.

Eastepp’s lover Bobby Dupray was the other co-owner of the InBetween, and he had been diagnosed with HIV in 1984. In the 1980s AIDS was a death sentence and there was only one doctor in the entire state who would treat people who had it. That was Dr. Kristen Ries, who practiced out of the Catholic-owned Holy Cross Hospital.

Eastepp learned firsthand of Dr. Ries’ compassion and dedication to serve a population that was despised by other physicians and most Utahns in general. He wanted to honor her at the Gay Pride Day event with a community service award. Since she was the first recipient, this award was named in her honor. Before stepping down Eastepp decreed that a community service award would be given out each year at Pride Day to recognize unselfish labor in the service of gay people.

For the first couple of years Pride Day committee members selected the recipient from a number of candidates. During the Pride Day leadership of Kevin Hillman and Deb Rosenberg in the early 1990s criterion were set in place for choosing a recipient as well as rules on who could nominate and who could vote on the nominations. It was then decided that anyone from the gay community could nominate anyone from the gay community for the award, but that only past recipients could vote on the nominees.

One of the criteria put in place at this time was that a candidate must be self-identified as a member of our community. This provision was enacted by GLCCU after controversy over the choice to honor KUTV Channel 2 with the award in 1989 for its help in bringing the AIDS Quilt panels to the Salt Palace.

Another proviso was the longevity of service to the community. GLCCU agreed on a minimum of three years of volunteerism and service.

Pride Day has transformed over the years since the first Community Service Award was given, but for the most part these rules have been followed to this day.

Since 1987, 34 people and two organizations have been honored with the Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award. This year another person will join the ranks of some of the most devoted members of our community. Some recipients have since died, many have moved out of state, some are still here as emeritus community activists and some are still fighting the good fight.

Space does not permit more than a simple roll call of the former recipients of the most prestigious honor that we bestow on our own. They are: Dr. Kristen Ries; Rev. Bruce Barton; KUTV Channel 2; Chuck Whyte; Nikki Boyer; Becky Moss; Ben Williams; College of Monarchs of the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire; Craig Miller; Ben Barr; Val Mansfield; the late Kathy Worthington; Kim Russo; Bruce Harmon; Clariss Cartier (Doug Tollstrup); Charlene Orchard; the late Barb Barnhart; Rev. Kelly Byrnes; Jeff Freedman; Maggie Snyder, PAC; LaDonna Moore; Dr. Patty Reagan, Ph.D.; Marlin Criddle; Brenda Voisard; Laura Milliken Gray; Brook Heart-Song; Kevin Hillman; Doug Wortham; Luci Malin; Jane and Tami Marquardt; Jackie Biskupski; Doug Fadel; Stan Penfold; and Walter Larabee.

Great and wonderful things are happening in our community today. But lest we forget, we are standing on the shoulders of giants, people who in their own ways shaped us and set us on the path to victory for civil rights for all queer Utahns. We were the radicals that transformed Utah. By radical I mean we all in our own ways got to the root of the problem of homophobia and helped people overcome it. And you can do this, too.

Maybe next year your name will be added to this list. We all started out just like you.

So roll up your sleeves and get to work.

Pride is more than a party. Q

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you unable to carry luggage and you’re about to go on a European vacation. What’s a person to do?

Well, if you’re Family Research Council co-founder and ex-gay therapy champion George Rekers, you look no further than RentBoy.com for a “travel assistant.”

And then you get caught at the airport with this hot young stud while pushing your own luggage cart. Whoops.

That’s right, yet another anti-gay socalled Christian has been caught gayhanded.

Rekers doesn’t seem to think so, however. He’s sticking very hard to his “travel assistant” story. According to a statement on his website, “Following medical advice (Rekers) requires an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery. His family, local friends, and even another university professor colleague have offered to accompany him on trips to assist him in his travel.”

Wow. It looks like he had a lot of people

he could have asked to accompany him on his trip. And yet he still went with the prostitute from RentBoy. Maybe his family, friends and that mysterious other university professor don’t give good enough hand jobs.

“Rekers found his recent travel assistant by interviewing different people who might be able to help, and did not even find out about his travel assistant’s Internet advertisements offering prostitution activity until after the trip was in progress,” his website’s message continues.

I reckon “interviewing different people” means “I looked at lots of hot naked dudes on RentBoy before deciding on the only I now refer to as my “travel assistant.” It’s kind of hard to believe that Rekers found out about the RentBoy profile while the two were in Eu-

rope together, unless of course his so-called assistant said, “Oh, by the way, want to see pictures of my penis online?”

Rekers claims that there “was nothing inappropriate with this relationship” and that he “was not involved in any illegal or sexual behavior with his travel assistant.” He even went as far as comparing himself to Jesus and John the Baptist saying he was just ministering to his sinner of a travel assistant and trying to save his soul.

Needless to say, it’s all kind of hard to swallow. Rekers can claim all he wants that he isn’t gay, has never been gay and just wants to save the real gays from their evil gay selves, but he is definitely one confused and hypocritical little man.

Rekers has made a career out of demon-

Yet another anti-gay so-called Christian has been caught gay-handed.

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izing LGBT folks and doing everything he can to make this country less safe for anyone who isn’t heterosexual. For example, Rekers was paid real taxpayer dollars to testify for the state in favor of Florida’s anti-gay adoption ban.

It’s really not a surprise that so many folks who are rabidly anti-gay have turned out to be closeted and suffering even as they fight to keep discrimination against LGBT people written in this country’s laws. It’s as if they’re thinking, “Gosh, this had better stay illegal otherwise I’m going to do it all day long.”

You know what, Rekers? You don’t end up at RentBoy.com by accident and you sure as hell don’t hire a guy whose credentials include a “large” and “uncut” cock as a “travel assistant.” I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think foreskin is usually involved in carrying a suitcase. Q

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world she reviews rock and roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister.

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This year’s Pride theme is Our History, Our Future, and we take that to mean the people who got us here and those who will take us to the next place — our heroes. We have chosen three people who stood up in the early decades of our movement and one person we believe is a rising star. We had many to choose from and will likely make this an annual feature.

Bob Waldrop:

PASTOR AND PUBLISHER

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SALTLAKE WOULDN’T BE WHERE IT is today without the many gay and lesbian publications that came before, such as Babs DeLay’s The Salt Lick and The Open Door, the main newspaper for Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community from 1977 to 1981.

The paper, named with the phrase “coming out of the closet” in mind, was owned and operated in party by Rev. Robert “Bob” Waldrop, a pastor at the gayfriendly Metropolitan Community Church.

Although short-lived, the paper published a number of weighty articles, including the famous “Payne Papers,” a rebuttal against a BYU professor’s anti-gay lecture by gay BYU student Cloy Jenkins.

Waldrop arrived in Utah in 1977 to replace MCC-SLC’s outgoing minister, Rev. Alice Jones.

Here, he found an environment that was very different from the one in California. Just weeks before his arrival, Lt. Governor David Monson had rescinded permission for the church to hold a dance in the State Capitol Rotunda. Further, an arsonist whom Waldrop describes as “amateurish,” had also attempted to set fire to the MCC’s files.

“There was a lot of fear and worry,” he recalls.

“Gays were becoming more visible nationally, and the LDS leadership began making statements against gays and that didn’t help anyone’s paranoia. There were tales of BYU security, aversion therapy, suicides. One evening while handing out invitations at The Sun Tavern to come to MCC, a Jeep with four guys pulled up to the curb and I went over and handed them a flyer inviting them to church ... and then I noticed they all had baseball bats. They looked at the flyer, and then I looked at the guy sitting closest to me in the eyes, and he said to the driver,

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‘Let’s get out of here.’”

As the pastor of the state’s only gay-affirming church at the time, Waldrop says he soon became the “go-to person for the media whenever a gay story came up.”

“That in itself was controversial, as the way the community had survived for a long time was by remaining ‘under the radar,’” he says.

From there, it was an easy leap from being the so-called spokesperson for the fledgling gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community to providing a forum for others to speak. In 1979 Waldrop purchased The Open Door from activist Ken Kline, who had acquired the paper from its founder, Ray Henke.

“I thought it was providing a needed service and shouldn’t just disappear,” he says.

Under Waldrop’s leadership, the paper was, as he recalls “mostly news and politics” with “commentary about problems with the Mormon Church” (such as the aforementioned “Payne Papers”) appearing frequently. Like many papers of that time, content about and for bisexual and transgender people was scarce, and layout was primitive by today’s standards. Waldrop pasted articles by hand onto sheets that he sent to the printer in rural Utah. Headlines were created from letters transfered from film sheets.

“I was always running out of one letter for a headline at 2 a.m. when the stores were closed,” he laughs. “I remember being excited that The Open Door had a fancy electric typewriter that would allow you to make columns with a justified right margin via a complicated process.”

Along with this laborious preparation process, the paper faced a lot of hostility from the community at large. Waldrop recalls getting “a lot of hate mail and threatening phone calls.”

And while threats didn’t stop the reverend from publishing, financial problems did in 1981. Despite attempts to generate ad revenue and even to charge a quarter per issue to raise money for gay-affirming organizations like Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons and the then-named Imperial Court of Utah, the paper folded just two years after Waldrop purchased it.

But though the paper’s time was brief, its mark on Utah’s queer community was not, and neither was Waldrop’s. In his time in Utah he participated in a spirited demonstration against singer and anti-gay activist Anita Bryant at the Utah

State F a i r grounds, and attempted to raise awareness in his own way about the 1978 murder of his friend, a fellow gay man named Tony Adams — a case which is open to this day.

“At the time I spray painted [in] orange paint that question [“Who killed Tony Adams?”] on a bunch of construction walls downtown as it became clear the case would not be resolved,” says Waldrop, adding, jokingly, “ I hope the statute of limitations for graffiti is past for that deed.”

When asked what prompted him to fight for Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community as a minister, a publisher and activist, Waldrop says it was, and is, a matter of justice.

“One thing that drove me on were the stories people came and told me,” he remembers. “In times of trouble, people often seek a clergy person to talk to, and throughout my time at MCC, one person after another came through my office, most of them not members of our church, but just seeking someone to talk to. I heard a lot of really terrible stories and heartache. No one could go through that and remain silent.”

“One theme in my life that has been consistent through all of my own journey is to stand with those who are rejected and persecuted, ‘on the edge,’” he continues. “I have always had a thing about injustice and felt that the hoary cliché, ‘the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing,’ was true.” Q

Babs De Lay

EDITOR, REAL ESTATE AGENT, WOMEN’S MUSIC PROMOTER

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D E L AY IS ONE OF THE MOST prominent and influential — and most recognizable — members of Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. A real estate agent, minister, former publisher, and sometimes theatrical director, she is truly a renaissance woman who has helped our community evolve into the diverse and powerful political and cultural force it is today.

And yet, when called a community leader, she says “I have no idea what that means and haven’t a clue when and who designated me a leader.”

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Closeted throughout high school (“I didn’t have words for my feelings or anyone to talk to about them,” she remembers), De Lay came out while an undergraduate at Westminster College during the turbulent 1970s — when the Black Power, Women’s Liberation and Gay Rights movements came to fruition. At that time, gay-friendly bars and other businesses were springing up around Salt Lake City, including The Sun Tavern, Perky’s Tavern (a lesbian hang out) and The Open Door Bookstore, which sold De Lay a copy of Rita Mae Brown’s lesbian classic, The Rubyfruit Jungle.

“We went to the bars like folks do now, and we all started gravitating to any business or events that seemed gay friendly, like the bookstores and record stores (Cosmic Aeroplane) or arts festivals,” De Lay recalls. “Because of the Women’s Lib movement we got educated about our own sexuality and possibilities and started speaking up at classes and events. One lesbian would speak up in a class and soon someone else would join in and we found each other as sisters, friends and lovers.”

But for all the camaraderie and sisterhood, Salt Lake City in the 1970s was not a safe place for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Anti-gay street harassment and assaults were common, and rarely received attention or redress — often, says De Lay, police just looked the other way, leaving community members to fend for themselves.

“I was always one to get in a ruckus of some sorts, so if there was bashing I was one of the mob that might run after the bashers to catch them,” she remembers.

At this time, De Lay also began finding a love for volunteering for a number of progressive community organizations.

She worked crisis lines at the University of Utah and the Rape Crisis Center (now known as the Rape Recovery Center), worked as a DJ at local gay bars and helped with “fluffing drag queens before shows — schlepping wigs and boas.” When the city’s first gay community center opened next to The Sun, she found herself working there, too.

“I volunteered to help any way I could and still do. It’s my nature to volunteer,” she says.

As the decade wore on, De Lay was there to see the state’s first Gay Pride Festival, protests against Coors and Florida Orange Juice, whose spokeswoman, entertainer Anita Bryant, was an outspoken opponent of homosexuals. Although De Lay says Utah’s budding gay and transgender community found “strength in numbers” in the ’80s as coming out became a little easier, the new decade also brought a terrible challenge.

“I think I became unconditionally driven when the AIDS plague hit,” De Lay remembers. “Virtually every gay man I knew died in just a few years. I think I lost 200 friends in the ’80s. They died horribly.

People wouldn’t talk to them, touch them, or care for them because they were terrified they would catch the ‘gay cancer.’ I saw my friends get those horrible Kaposi sarcoma spots, go blind, go mad, and waste away and look like Auschwitz prisoners.”

Along with the spectre of HIV/AIDS, Utah’s nascent queer community also faced another problem that persists today.

“Mostly people lost their jobs or had their families kick them out of the house,” she remembers. “If you were out like I was it was never unusual to have some newly homeless/jobless gay person knock on your door looking for a place to crash.”

After being fired herself from more jobs than she could count for being openly lesbian, De Lay became self employed as a real estate agent — and the first openly gay realtor (to the best of her knowledge) in the state. At the same time, she became the force behind two papers: a lesbian publication, The Rocky Mountain Woman and a gay newspaper called The Salt Lick, the name of which QSaltLake adopted for its parent company, Salt Lick Publishing, in 2005. It was one of two papers that ran out of the early gay community center.

“We needed to get the news out to gays and [that] was the place to do it,” she explains. “We covered whatever we could — mostly a lot of Royal Court [of the Golden Spike Empire] activities. ... Since I was the yearbook editor in college, a photographer and artist, plus a reporter, it was easy for me to draw up the paper and get it out. I made friends with X-ACTO knives and press-on lettering.”

Of the three early leaders profiled in this year’s Utah Pride issue, De Lay is the only one who still lives in Utah. When asked what has kept her in the Beehive State all these years, she says: “It would be hard to move somewhere else and start all over now that I’ve been in real estate for 26 years. I’ve made this place my home and it still gives me bliss.”

“We are a stunningly beautiful state, aren’t we?” she adds.

And despite the struggles she and the community faced in the ’70s and ’80s, Delay says that she is not surprised in the least that Utah — and the United States — have come so far in just a few decades.

“I am more surprised that I lived to see a black president and hear my parents call me to say, ‘There are five ads in our paper for marijuana coupons at the medical marijuana outlets!’” she quips. Q

Ben Barr

VOLUNTEER, AIDS PROJECT DIRECTOR

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OR MANY GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND

transgender people who came of age during the time of antiretroviral drugs, the Ryan White CARE Act and local and state and national HIV/ AIDS foundations, it is difficult to imagine the devastation wrought by the disease throughout the 1980s. Today, HIV/AIDS is a still a serious illness, but a manageable one with the right drug therapies; then, it was a death sentence.

When AIDS first appeared in Utah early in the decade, a number of heroic people stepped up to the challenge of caring for the people affected by it, including Dr. Kristen Reis, for whom the Utah Pride Center’s annual community service award is named.

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Another was Ben Barr, the younger brother of actress and comedian Roseanne Barr, who served as the executive director of a number of HIV/AIDS organizations, including the AIDS Project of Utah and the Salt Lake AIDS Foundation, which soon merged into the Utah AIDS Foundation that serves the state today.

“AIDS brought about a lot of changes to the gay scene. I think the one that many people forget or can’t understand if they didn’t live through it is how fear and suffering changed our lives,” recalls Barr, now a graduate student at the University of Berkeley, California. “The impact of fear and anxiety during this time is hard to describe. People would start to look thin, then get really tired, and then often end up in the hospital with immune disorders that most people had never heard of like pneumocystis pneumonia …

It was overwhelming to watch this happen to people we knew and loved.”

“I think that AIDS changed the gay scene by forcing many of us to confront our own mortality and death at very young ages,” he continues. “We lost a generation of some of the most talented and extroverted members of our community. The epidemic changed those of us who provided care. To put it bluntly, you can’t change the diapers

of people you love without learning a lot of lessons about love, patience and about a different kind of intimacy.”

Like all of the leaders profiled in this issue, Barr became involved in Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community at a time when it was still coming out of the closet and finding itself. In the mid1980s, much of the “gay scene” centered around gay-owned bars, the University of Utah’s Gay Student Union, and what Barr calls “the gay arts district” on First South between Second and Third East, which was then a haven for independent theatres, restaurants and bookstores like the Cosmic Aeroplane.

Around this time, Barr had dropped out of college and was unsure what to do with his life. Around this time he met psychologist Michael Elliot, who along with others in the health field was forming a group for people with HIV/AIDS. Elliot suggested that Barr get involved with Shanti, a San Francisco-based AIDS group that was training Utahns to be, as Barr puts it, “buddies for people who were dying of AIDS.” Barr soon joined the fledgling group — AIDS Project Utah — as a special event organizer. At age 27 he became “I had watched my older sisters’ involvement in the feminist movement and that motivated me to get involved in work with the LGBT community,” Barr explains.

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pride guide OUR HEROES Continued from page 27 Appeal in Salt Lake City in the 1940s and 1950s bringing survivors to America. I felt that AIDS would define my life in much the same way that the Holocaust had defined my parents and grandparents’ time. I didn’t want to be one of the people who sat on the sidelines who later-on would say, ‘I didn’t know what was happening.’”

“Plus, I assumed that I was also HIV positive,” he continues. “I thought that I had a couple of years to live and that I wanted to create some change while I was still here.”

In working to create some change for Utahns with HIV/AIDS — and for the community at large — Barr moved to Seattle in 1992 to get his masters degree in social work. He returned to Utah in 1996 and worked as Salt Lake Valley Health Department’s HIV/AIDS manager until 1999, during which time he also helped to found the Utah Harm Reduction Coalition (now known as the Intermountain Harm Reduction Project) — a group, he says, that still does “great work around HIV and injection drug use and with women caught up in prostitution.”

Barr says he is thankful for all of the hard work Utahns have put into fighting HIV/AIDS in the nearly 30 years since the virus’ first widespread appearance. And while the disease may be manageable for many today, he urges all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people not to become complacent.

“I live in a community that has seen three AIDS service organizations close in recent years. It is terrible to see people in need without adequate services,” he says.

“Salt Lake is lucky to have agencies like the [Utah] AIDS Foundation, the People With AIDS Coalition [of Utah], The Harm Reduction Coalition and the Utah Pride Center. So go volunteer or send them some money — they can’t provide services without your help.”

Showing support like this, he adds, is what will keep the community strong.

“I continue to believe that something transformational happens, both for the individuals and our entire community, whenever LGBT people make a commitment to take care of each other,” he says.

Isaac Higham STUDENT, ACTIVIST, FAUX-REPUBLICAN

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So much so, that the council did a 180 and put the item back on the agenda of the very next meeting, knowing they had enough support to pass them.

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Welcome 2010 Uta to the h Pride Fe stival!

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What’s New at Pride The 2010 Utah Pride Festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first pride gatherings in New York. And historically speaking, the Utah festivities have never had so much to offer.

If you have never attended the Festival, or if the sparkle of the 120 vendor booths, food selections from around the world, world-class entertainment, rallies, marches and rainbow-splashed fun has dulled for you, then check out what’s new this year:

Utah Pride Center Program Zone This area will feature the staff and more than 30 programs and affiliates operated by the Utah Pride Center.

Effen Vodka South/Dance Stage Located on the south side of the City and County Building, this stage will feature non-stop dance music sponsored by area night clubs and a vodka bar by Effen Vodka.

Family Carnival Saturday, June 5 from 4–7 p.m. the festival will have events for kids and age appropriate entertainment on the East/Café Stage.

Face painting, cotton candy and more.

Pride Day 5K Saturday, June 5, Memory Grove. Hosted in conjunction with Wasatch Area Race Productions.

Trans March A transgender rally and march will join the Dyke March, then a rally at City Creek Park, and lastly the Interfaith Pride March and head right into the Festival grounds.

Main Stage Programming Designed to be one continuously programmed event Sunday afternoon, this stage will feature headline entertainer Martha Wash and performances by the DC Cowboys, the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, Angie Evans, Backdoor Burlesque, Aztec dancers and DJ Claudette.

East/Café Stage Located on the east side of the City and County Building, this stage will feature acoustic-sounding artists including Andrew Livingston, Misty Rivers, Lost by Reason, Otter Creek and more.

Civil Rights History Zone In keeping with the festival theme, “Our History, Our Future”, this zone will feature a timeline of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement and other civil rights events.

‘Beyond Gay’ Film Hosted in conjunction with the Salt Lake Film Center, Beyond Gay chronicles the history of Gay Pride festivals and the importance of community building. Q

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The Phenomenal Grand Marshal She’s bright, bubbly and bodacious. She speaks in a dialect known only to those from the Utah County community of Spanish Fork. She is a character created as a mouthpiece for the “minoritized and miniaturized” people of the world.

She is the Mormon mother of a gay son.

She is Sister Dottie S. Dixon and she is the Utah Pride Festival’s 2010 Parade Grand Marshal.

Over the past year, Dixon, portrayed by actor Charles Lynn Frost, has spread her message of love and acceptance from the stage, earning her critical acclaim from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and allied communities.

“The phenomena known as Sister Dottie is much bigger than I had ever anticipated it being,” said Frost.

Among an array of accolades received this year including Three City Weekly Arty Awards, a QSaltLake Fabby Award and a Best Actor nod by the Deseret News, Dixon has been chosen by the Utah Pride Center to lead this year’s parade.

And just as there are two pieces that carry Sister Dottie — Frost’s labors and Dottie’s message — so there are two pieces to honor in naming her as the Grand Marshal. Having a character as the festival’s leader allows the work of the actor to be acknowledged and the concept of her message to be exemplified.

“We say thank you to Charles Lynn Frost and the creative team responsible for bringing Sister Dottie to life,” said Valerie Larabee, executive director for the Utah Pride Center. “And secondly, that we

bring the conversation for love and acceptance to more homes in Utah through putting Sister Dottie in the spotlight.”

The character of Dottie was originally conceived by Frost and KRCL’s Troy Williams, who hosted Dixon on the show What Not, What Have You and Such as That, which ran for about three years.

The duo teamed up with Pygmalion Theater Company’s Artistic Director Fran Pruyn, and in early 2009, Dixon took to the stage at the Rose Wagner Theater.

Her one-woman show tells the story of a casserole-makin’ Mormon mother who, when faced with the news of her son’s coming out, goes on a journey of the heart and soul to find her purpose in the face of a changing reality.

Frost says that after three turns onstage, a couple of internal makeovers and a personal life and death battle with the H1N1 virus, Dixon has emerged with a deeper gratitude, brighter vision and stronger purpose.

“Her message was much more vital because I’d almost died in the doing,” Frost said.

Frost says Dixon symbolizes the strength and hope for families everywhere struggling to understand their identity. That she does it with the face of a loving mother makes the message accessible to all communities.

“As we wage the battle for LGBT equality, we can’t forget that there are young people and old still trying to have the conversation with the people that they love about coming out,” said Larabee. “And that has not gotten any easier in the face of the division that has been made present by recent political overtones.”

For Frost, being chosen as Grand Marshal left him feeling “honored, humbled and scared.”

And is Sister Dottie up for the challenge?

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pride guide An Interview with Pride Headliner Sandra Bernhard

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actress, singer and writer Sandra Bernhard is one busy lady. She released an album of original songs, Whatever It Takes (Mi5) in 2009 and played a series of shows in support of the disc. More recently the working mother has been seen as a panelist on The Joy Behar Show on HLN, providing her humor and insight on a broad range of current events.

Now she’s bringing her show to Utah Pride on Saturday, June 5, for what is sure to be a night of love, laughter and music.

GREGG SHAPIRO: Just a few days before this interview, the Golden Globes paid tribute to filmmaker Martin Scorcese, which included a sizable clip of you in “The King of Comedy”…

SANDRA BERNHARD: I know, I know (laughs). I saw it.

GS: Is there anything you would add in tribute to Scorcese?

SB: Working with him was an amazing experience. He’s really open and he’s very collaborative. I think he has a really clear vision of what he’s trying to get from the actors and what he wants to put into the final product. He’s a very methodical person, and at the same time very open. It was a great learning experience for me.

GS: Your new CD, Whatever It Takes has a very strong world music influence throughout.

SB: T h e m a n (Ted Mason) who produced it and wrote it with me and for me is very connected to the world music scene. What I like about it is the openness to the world.

We were kind of in this weird holding pattern during the Bush administration and everybody was very jingoistic and afraid to travel.

“Everybody’s

a terrorist!” That music has a welcoming feel toward the rest of the world and I think that’s really important. Musically, it’s beautiful and I love the lyrics. The whole idea of travel and openness is really important.

GS: I’m glad that you mentioned Ted Mason, who produced and co-wrote songs for the album with you. What can you tell me about your collaborative writing process?

SB: It was different with him, because he kind of came into it with a preconceived idea of what he wanted. When I write songs with Mitch Kaplan, my musical director, they’re more my genesis. This was kind of more his vision than mine, but it was still something that I understood and agreed with. I thought it was a really cool way of doing it. He took elements of my personality and my political stance and my independence as a woman and infused the album with those ideas.

GS: You are joined by Chrissie Hynde for a duet on the song “All Around.” What was that like?

SB: She’s a good friend of mine. She happened to be in town and we could nab her and she was generous to run over to the studio and come in and do it. I’ve been on tour with her before and we just hang out. She’s a great friend.

GS: In terms of your comedy, you’ve been riffing on celebrities, such as Mariah Carey, long before say Kathy Griffin or Jackie Hoffman. Do you have any perspective on your influence on others?

SB: I think the thing that separates me from other performers who talk about celebrities ... I write monologues about people. It’s more of a theatrical thing. It’s not just, “Mariah Carey’s weird” or “Mariah Carey’s bad.” I craft actual pieces, they’re kinds of fancy in my imagination of sort of being friends with certain people or relationships. I take it to a different level. Although it’s a social commentary or a commentary on those people, it’s not a trash-fest. That’s not what my work is about.

GS: Political humor is also a component of your work. We are speaking the day after the special election in Massachusetts in which ultra right-wing Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy.

Have you thought about how you might include the subject in your show?

SB: I don’t think it’s interesting enough to comment. I think really right now we’re in this strange evolution and flux between people’s need for health care and education and all the good things we should all have and that rejection of what they conceive as liberal politics. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot. This general need for people to express themselves, that’s really important in our culture right now. To

Twitter and blog and everybody has a voice.

I think it’s great, we all do have a voice, but we don’t all have the proper information to be making these weird blanket commentaries. Especially the people on the right who like throw a wrench in because (booming voice) “we’re Americans and we don’t have to put up with this.” What are you putting up with? Something that’s better for you?

Fine, then don’t have health care. Go to the emergency room and wait for 10 hours and get thrown out in the street with an injury.

If that’s what you want, fuck you! That’s my attitude about the whole thing. I just hope that eventually the people that want it and deserve it get it. I don’t know what to say about all of this. People go on personality so often and they don’t look at what’s really underneath, somebody’s qualifications.

GS: Have you incorporated President Obama into your work?

SB: A little bit. Kind of superficially because there’s really not a lot ... and he’s a thinking person. Maybe he doesn’t make, seemingly to the naked eye, all the right decisions, but I know a lot of very smart people, from Rachel Maddow on down who believe he’s done things that are really important and major that we don’t necessarily know about or that he doesn’t talk about. Things that need to get done. I think he’s really doing what he needs to do. He’s buckling down.

He’s also dealing with all of these rightwing nut jobs. It’s not an easy position.

GS: We’ve been seeing a lot more on TV recently, including being a panelist on Joy Behar’s HLN show. Do you enjoy doing that?

SB: I love doing it. It’s a great outlet for me.

Joy is super smart. I love that a woman who’s really worked hard to get where she is has her moment. We go on there and just riff on stuff. I used to be able to do that on Letterman and when Bill Maher had “Politically Incorrect,” those were shows where you could do stuff like that. But you can’t do that anymore. “Politically Incorrect” doesn’t exist. All the late night talk shows are a forum for promoting your movies and your products. You can’t go on there and have fun anymore. That’s what I love about Joy’s show.

You can go on there and have a great time.

GS: Speaking of television, you played recurring characters on The L Word and Rosanne. Would you like to have your own series?

SB: Yes. I’m actively working on not only getting back into doing arcs on some great shows, I’m also creating my own projects, which really take a long time to make happen. I’ve been in it non-stop, in terms of creating stuff, for the past 10 years. It’s just a crap shoot, really. It doesn’t always come together, but it will. I’m actively working on it.

GS: I also think of you as being a literary person, as well. Are there any new books on the horizon?

SB: I’ll only do another book if I’m on TV and I have high visibility. They don’t pay you anything for books anymore unless you’re in the thick of it. It’s just too much work to write a book and not have it get the attention that it needs. Q

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pride guide DC Cowboys Saddle Up for Utah Pride

by Tony Hobday

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DC COWBOYS DANCE COMPANY is an all-male performing arts troupe for gay men. It was founded in 1994 by the current Artistic Director Kevin Platte, and has in the last 16 years greatly evolved into a national and international sensation. Though the DC Cowboys website, dccowboys.org, contains a plethora of pertinent information and some fun facts about the dancers, Platte was kind enough to chat with QSaltLake about the conception of the Cowboys and his great pride for what the company has accomplished over the years, as well as its future endeavors.

“We started from very humble roots,” Platte said of the Cowboys’ first performance, which was meant only to be a “one-time shot.” But after their performance during the DC Gay Rodeo weekend, six of the 12 original dancers wanted to “continue the journey.” Since that time, when they once grabbled with their identity — who they wanted to be, what they stood for — the troupe has grown in number to 20 dancers, ranging in age from the 20s to 40s, and it has become an important and positive patron for HIV/ AIDS organizations, providing no-cost entertainment for benefit events and foraging donations through the sales of the troupe’s annual calendar and DVDs. “At first we just took every opportunity to HE

perform,” said Platte. “It was just for us ... it was selfish in the beginning but then it became selfless.”

That philosophy seems to carry-over to today. Robert Neff, a sophomore Cowboy, said, “My favorite part about being a DC Cowboy is being able to take on a hobby that not only promotes physical fitness, travel and socializing, but also allows you to support LGBT awareness and give back to the community. It’s really a win-win.”

And nine-year veteran Chad Townsend, nicknamed Chandy (according to the website), said, “Looking at my life as an amateur musical theater performer, I

Four Stages of Entertainment For 2010, Utah Pride Festival organizers took a good, hard look at the way entertainment at the annual festival was showcased.

And in the end, they came up with one recurring truth: One must find something “festive” in “festival.”

So, with an upbeat atmosphere in mind, and a vision to be inclusive, expand choices and streamline festival entertainment, there are now four separately themed stages for this year’s Pride Festival. Each stage has been programmed with continuity in mind, both by genre and by the execution of the acts.

North/Main Stage

The North/Main Stage is the largest of the four stages and will house festival headliners and larger acts. Programming on this stage will be sewn together with a master of ceremonies and smaller, vibrant acts between main courses. Acts on Saturday night will include Saliva Sisters, DC Cowboys and Backdoor Burlesque. The headliner on Saturday will be Sandra Bernhard, and DJ Jesse Walker will host the late-night dance party. Sunday will include Backdoor Burlesque, DC Cowboys, Angie Evans, Aztec dancers, the Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire, headliner Martha Wash and DJ Claudette.

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South/Dance Stage It’s a party, right? And what do we like to do when we party? Dance! The festival will feature a dedicated dance stage on the south side of Washington Square. The South/Dance Stage will feature a DJ, stage, dance floor and vodka bar hosted by Effen Vodka. Salt Lake City clubs will sponsor the dance zone with In the Venue’s Temple throwing a party on Saturday night and clubs JAM and Püre on Sunday afternoon.

East/Café Stage The East/Café stage, flanked by Café Marmalade and a wine bar, was designed this year for acoustic entertainers to have a more intimate space in which to perform.

Acts on Saturday will be family-friendly to coincide with the kids’ carnival zone. Acts on Sunday include Andrew Livingston, Misty Rivers, Lost by Reason and Otter Creek.

West/Interactive Stage The West/Interactive Stage was a new feature for the 2009 Utah Pride Festival and was met with a resounding success. Here, festival participants may join in the fun during a karaoke competition, speed dating, a free dance class, a round of “Are You Smarter Than a Cyber Slut” and more. Q 2010

never imagined that someday I’d be a gay dancing cowboy.” “But it’s been amazing, he continued, “to perform at [events like] Wrigley Field for the closing ceremonies of the Gay Games and on a gay RSVP cruise through the Caribbean.”

Not only do the DC Cowboys perform at charity events, benefits, Pride festivals and even wedding receptions, the group has performed on live television as a contestant on the third season of America’s Got Talent. The Cowboys may not have won, but their talent and professionalism has been key to their success. The troupe holds auditions once a year, and they look for showmanship, skill and overall appearance. Those auditioning are taught small sections or dance combinations from existing choreography and are then asked to perform them in small groups.

While not a prerequisite, many of the DC Cowboys have previous performance, dance training, and/or musical theater experience. Platte said they usually get all sorts of talent of varying ages and skills, and sometimes it can be frustrating. “Sometimes we get these amazingly gorgeous men that show up and you think ‘I hope they can dance!’ and then they just can’t,” said Platte. When asked about having any heterosexual dancers, Platte admitted that none have ever auditioned.

“I think we all would love a straight man and I think we would all fall in love with him,” he joked.

Though the company is volunteerbased, the members are required to be responsible, able to attend rehearsals and willing to make a commitment of more than one year to the organization, according to the website. They usually rehearse for two hours once a week, or twice a week when a major performance is imminent. “The life of a DC Cowboy can get chaotic,” admitted Neff. “Between work, family, friends, relationships, dance rehearsals and performances, it seems like a lot to juggle. [But] I’m very fortunate to

have a job that is open to creative outlets as well as to have supportive friends and family who try and make it to performances when they can.”

Townsend added: “While we techinically only rehearse one night a week, there is so much more that goes into running this organization. Most of the responsibility falls on Kevin, but I act as a sounding board and a leader; and we have our very talented stage manager, Barbara Kurjeza, who we couldn’t live without; plus our choreographers, dance captains, costume committee and social media gurus.

It really is a whole team of volunteers that makes this organization what it is.”

Utah Pride weekend will be the DC Cowboys first visit to Utah, but they are not unfamiliar with the Mormon culture.

“We have performed at two of the Affirmation National Conferences that were held in DC,” said Platte. “They are a great group of people, it was a lot of fun.” Utah festival-goers will get a chance to see the DC Cowboys up to four times during the weekend; however, they will not be performing full-variety shows which include singing and dancing. Platte said they only perform dance routines at smaller events and venues like Utah Pride, but also added that it will be a great show.

“Think Brokeback Meets Broadway,” Platte said. The Cowboys will perform at Püre Club on Friday, June 4, time TBA, then at the festival on Saturday, June 5, at 7 p.m., then later at Studio 27, time TBA, and finally at the festival on Sunday, June 6, at 1:30 p.m.

For the future, Platte hopes and is currently working on the idea of a reality series about the DC Cowboys. “[W]e’re talking with production companies about the possiblity for a reality show. What could have more drama than 28 gay men together on a show,” Platte joked, adding that he doesn’t want it to be a “Girls Gone Wild” kind of thing. He wants it to be fun but also socially constructive. Q

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pride guide What Pride Means to Me

We solicited short essays on what Pride means to people and have chosen the three best for this annual Pride Guide. Thanks to those who wrote!

’Til There’s No More Need for Pride

by John P. Wilkes

The first Pride I attended ... let’s just say several years ago, and leave it at that, was in Sunnyside Park. There were no booths, no beer garden, no corporate sponsors; just softball, watermelon and soft drinks. It was a way to come “out” a little farther than I was at the time. I’ve tried to stay directly or indirectly involved in Utah Pride every year since. It hasn’t always been easy, but it’s almost always a good experience.

I have my favorite Prides, like the first year there was a parade. I marched front and center with some of the proudest fags I’ve ever known, carrying the huge rainbow flag you still see in the parade today.

Another year a friend and I marched with a banner for Radio City Lounge. My absolute favorite is the year Tyler (an “ex”) and I walked down State Street holding hands.

Opinions regarding Pride are mixed in GLBTQ communities. Its relevance and effectiveness are being challenged. Some think it has become too political; others not political enough. Many think Pride presents queer people in a frivolous light, and do not want to be represented by flamboyant fairies or quixotic queens on colorful floats. Still others think Prides have become too commercial, and are suspicious of how funds are used. Sadly, too many have been indoctrinated to believe they have nothing of which to be proud.

Most just find it a great excuse to party.

Dissent is to be expected when trying to affect progressive change. Sometimes egos or agendas get in the way, personalities clash. Still, every year, a dedicated team of volunteers makes Pride happen. That’s one testimony to the relevance of Pride — Teamwork: overlooking differences to promote a common goal.

It’s much more, too. Freedom: to kiss, hold, love whoever you wish, wherever you like, without fear. Visibility: having the courage to be out, establish our right to exist, and show the world we are not ashamed of who we are. Diversity: gathering people of different ilks — race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity — under the same umbrella to forward the same cause, the most important reason for Pride, our struggle for Equality: a day when queer folks will be treated like everyone else under the law.

On that day, there will be no need for Pride.

But we’ll do it anyway — for the party.

Going After All You Got

by Scott Christian Bauer

I grew up in the ’80s, graduating high school in 1985. I knew as early as third grade that I was gay, but not one of the 500 students in my rural Missouri high school was out of the closet. I didn’t come out until September 1999, just a few months before I turned 33. Until just a few short years ago I was too terrified to be myself for fear of other people’s bigotry, hatred, or worse.

Today, I see more Human Rights Campaign logo bumper stickers on cars and trucks than I ever thought possible, including on my own. Gay kids are coming out in high school (and earlier!) and being accepted by their peers — not to mention taking same-gender dates to the prom or other school activities. The advent of GayStraight Alliances and the walkout at East High a while back have been incredible and wonderful to witness. And now the LDS Church is officially backing non-discrimination ordinances not only here in Utah but throughout the world.

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Pride means accepting yourself as you are, being yourself with family and friends, and finding that special someone to share your life with and then enjoying your life in happiness and peace. It means being proud of how God made you. It also means standing up for our rights, no matter how difficult the struggle.

We want what everyone wants — happiness, joy, love, and peace. Pride means going after all that with everything you’ve got. Ultra-conservative right-wing fascists be damned!

Let it Shine

by Mark Speth

What ‘Pride Means to Me’ can have a lot of different interpretations, but for me as a gay man it means that I am comfortable

enough with who I am and my lifestyle that I don’t let society try to tell me how I can or can’t live my life. For the first 25 years of my life I conformed to what I had been told was right and I wasn’t comfortable in my own skin to have enough pride in myself, if was only after I stopped listening to others on how I was supposed to live my life that I started having Pride in who I was since I finally felt comfortable to be myself.

It is only when we are comfortable with being ourselves that we are able to have the pride to let others see us for who we are and not what they think we should be. It takes courage, strength, and time for each and everyone of us to recognize where our path in life is and who we are meant to be.

This is what Pride means to me, to know ourselves and to let it shine for everyone around us to see it as well. Q

2010 Community Service Awards The theme of the 2010 Utah Pride Festival, “Our History, Our Future,” has a focus that both acknowledges the duality of where the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community has been as well as how far it has yet to go.

Along the same lines, the choice of Rep. Christine Johnson as the recipient of the 2010 Pete Suazo Political Action Award and Mark Swonson as the recipient of the Dr. Kristen Reis Community Service Award, has a similar duality: Johnson as the public face fighting for justice for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people and understanding on Capitol Hill, and Swonson, the unsung participant, selflessly working behind the scenes for a myriad of community missions.

“One gets all the face time and the other gets none,” said Utah Pride Center Executive Director Valerie Larabee. “And you can’t discount either because it takes both kinds of people to create the kind of leverage we need for full LGBTQ equality.”

The Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award was established in 1987 and was first presented to Reis for her humanitarian efforts in dealing with the AIDS crisis and which is forever named in her honor. Mark Swonson, as the recipient if this award, has shown relentless dedication by being present and willing to lend a hand. He has served as a selfless promoter for the Utah Pride Center, the Utah AIDS Mark Swonson Foundation, Equality Utah, Stonewall Democrats and many more organizations.

“He must spend all of his free time doing things that benefit the community,” said Lucy Malin, past award recipient and

North Salt Lake resident.

The Pete Suazo Political Action Award was established in 2001 in honor of Senator Suazo’s tireless attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Utah. Rep. Johnson, as a recipient of this award, embodies exceptional commitment to the equal rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer community of Utah through legislation, policy or declaration as a two-term member of the State House of Representatives.

Johnson carries with her a resolute conviction of the strength and end u r i n g qualities of the community along with Rep. Christine Johnson a fierce set of networking and negotiating skills. Her efforts on Capitol Hill during the past Legislative Session kept peace during what could have been a tumultuous season.

“These awards represent giants in the work of the broader Utah community to address health and social concerns,” said Larabee. “To be a recipient of these awards is perhaps one of the highest honors bestowed on individuals working in the community.”

The awards will be presented at the Utah Pride Festival’s Grand Marshal Reception, honoring Sister Dottie S. Dixon as the 2010 Grand Marshal at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 4 at the IJ & Jeanne Jewish Community Center, 2 North Medical Dr., in Salt Lake City. Tickets for the reception are $35. Recipients will also be honored on Sunday, June 6 at the 2010 Utah Pride Parade. For tickets to all Utah Pride Festival events, please visit www.utahpridefestival.org.

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3:00 pm DYKE MARCH/TRANSGENDER MARCH UTAH STATE CAPITOL

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EFFEN VODKA SOUTH DANCE STAGE

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4:00 pm FAMILY ACTIVITIES BEGIN WASHINGTON SQ

4:00 pm TEMPLE/IN THE VENUE SOUTH DANCE STAGE

5:00 pm DJ MIKE BABBITT NORTH MAIN STAGE

5:00 pm KIDS’ CARNIVAL EAST CAFÉ STAGE

6:00 pm SALIVA SISTERS NORTH MAIN STAGE

The Saliva Sisters are an unnatural act. Who would have supposed a girl group singing parody songs about fiber, bidets, and bras would have survived, let alone flourished in Utah?

The drooling trio has been gracing Pride for years either onstage or at after-parties at the Trapp.

7:00 pm PRIDE LOUNGE

7:00 pm DC COWBOYS

NORTH MAIN STAGE

As seen on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and across the world, the DC Cowboys dance company has been called a “trademark combo of Broadway-caliber verve, sizzling sex appeal and rugged good looks.” Grab onto your seat for exciting, high-energy, professional dance numbers which span all musical genres from sexy club mixes to musical theater to contemporary country.

8:00 pm SANDRA BERNHARD NORTH MAIN STAGE

For 25 years, Sandra Bernhard has been challenging fans and critics with her knifeedged humor, satire and

SOUTH DANCE STAGE

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emotive performances on film, television and stage. The SF Weekly praised Bernhard, “One moment, her voice is lulling you into a wistful sigh; the next, she’s knocking you back several rows with it.”

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9:30 pm NEW CITY MOVEMENT WITH DJ JESSE WALKER

11:00 am FESTIVAL GATES OPEN

NORTH MAIN STAGE

Jesse Walker has promoted his unique vision of underground dance music in Salt Lake City and the Mountain West since the early ’90s.

With an ear to the ground and eyes firmly fixed on the future sounds and vision of music, he has quietly become an influential touchstone in the dance community.

11:00 pm Festival Gates Close

8:30 am Parade line-up begins 10:00 am UTAH PRIDE PARADE DOWNTOWN SLC

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11:00 am CLUB JAM

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12:00 pm ANGIE EVANS

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Angie Evans combines folk, soul, jazz, and funk as if they were meant to be together.

Her lyrics and voice speak of love, sex, passion and consciousness. She believes in sisterhood, pride, good

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1:00 pm ICHANTZINCO TLALOC AZTEC DANCERS

NORTH MAIN STAGE

This dance group shows Mexican culture as one of the wonders of the world, making their traditions known in a colorful and elegant way, keeping them the way they learned them from their Mexicas-Aztecas ancestors.

1:00 pm ANDREW LIVINGSTON EAST CAFÉ STAGE

Andrew “Scrap” Livingston played viola at age 6 and quickly became interested

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Fifteen diverse faith traditions join in music, ceremony and spoken word, immediately followed by a march from the church to City Creek Park to join the march from the capitol buidling.

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SALT LAKE CITY MAIN LIBRARY

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The official kick-off to the 2010 Utah Pride Festival celebrates this year’s Grand Marshal, Sister Dottie S. Dixon, at her own reception. She and the Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award and Pete Suazo Political Action award winners will be honored. Tickets $35

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Runners, joggers and walkers of all stripes are invited to participate in the first Pride Day 5K. The course takes participants past the state capitol, City Creek Canyon and ends in Memory Grove. Dogs, kids & strollers are welcome.

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in multiple instruments and composition. He now tours with the Mike Doughty Band playing cello and bass.

1:30 pm DC COWBOYS

NORTH MAIN STAGE

As seen on NBC’s America’s Got Talent and across the world, the DC Cowboys dance company has been called a “trademark combo of Broadway-caliber verve, sizzling sex appeal and rugged good looks.” Grab onto your sat for exciting, high-energy, professional dance numbers which span all musical genres from sexy club mixes to musical theater to contemporary country.

2:00 pm ROYAL COURT OF THE GOLDEN SPIKE EMPIRE NORTH MAIN STAGE

One of the oldest gay organizations in the state, the Court is a philanthropic organization which raises money for charities and people facing hardships through drag shows and other functions.

Rallies & Marches On Saturday, each group meets in separate places and times, but joins in a combined march down State Street towards the Festival Grounds.

UTAH CAPITOL TRANGENDER RALLY & MARCH 3PM SAT

2:00 pm CLUB PURE

DYKE RALLY & MARCH 3PM SAT

SOUTH DANCE STAGE

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2:00 pm MISTY RIVER EAST CAFÉ STAGE

Singer-Song writer Misty River awakened to her musical calling in 2008, after having a near death experience. Misty has set her intention on sharing the esssence of love and peace that she experienced on the other side. Her music is not just music. It’s a message. And her lyrics are not just words.

They’re a sermon to music.

COMBINED RALLY & MARCH 4PM SAT

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3:00 pm UTAH PRIDE IDOL NORTH MAIN STAGE

4:00 pm MARTHA WASH NORTH MAIN STAGE

Martha Wash is the queen of clubland who began her musical journey in the late ’70s as one ton of the disco group Two Tons of Fun. Their hit “It’s Raining Men” scored a grammy nomination and is still played at clubs across the world. Her “everybody dance now” also rings out over dance floors.

She now has her own record company and her single “You Lift Me Up” soared to the top 5 of the club play charts.

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Pride Parade The Pride Parade takes off from State Street at Broadway (300 South) on Sunday at 10 a.m. heading north to First South, east to Second East, then towards the Festival Grounds, disbanding at Broadway.

Many people choose to follow the parade right into the grounds at the end.

Those marching or riding in the parade will begin organizing at 8:30 a.m. at a designated spot. Make sure to talk with your group’s parade coordinator to know where that is beforehand.

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4:00 pm OTTER CREEK

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Utah gay allies Peter and Mary Danzig perform a spellbinding mix of original songs and American roots music on the mountain dulcimer, banjo, mandolin, guitar and fiddle that they call Rocky Mountain Folk/Grass.

5:00 pm DJ CLAUDETTE

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This dynamic trio is hard to resist with a striking blend of powerful vocals, melodic and heavy bass, violin, and vocal harmonies bringing you a cross of alternative rock, indie rock, and pop with an original sound.

They are currently writing their second fulllength album.

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EAST CAFÉ STAGE

INTERFAITH SERVICE & MARCH 2PM SAT

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3:00 pm LOST BY REASON

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First there were nearly 30 singers who signed up to compete to be the Utah Pride Idol at Superstar Karaoke at Club Jam. They wre narrowed down the first night to 15.

Then 10. Now, the top five get on stage to vie for your love to be deemed the Utah Pride Idol.

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SOUTH DANCE STAGE

7:00 pm Festival Gates Close

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5:00 pm PRIDE LOUNGE

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As a lucky recipient of Claudette’s vision, one can expect to bump, grind, shake and hustle in ways only inspired by truly exceptional DJs.

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SUGAR & GOLD See May 31

Drag Queens Galore

by Tony Hobday

We rented a “luxury home” in of Heber last weekend for my friend Chelle’s birthday. She turned 40, but her skin turned 62. Anyhoo, there were 40 helium balloons strewn about the house that were eventually used, along with my half-naked hairy body, to create a static charge, and then everyone lifted and tossed me against the wall, where I stuck to like I was velcro. Sufficed to say I came home and immediately purchased an electric shaver ... now I look like a strawberry patch!

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FRIDAY — Reputable painter and ex-gay failure RANDALL LAKE shares an exhibit where he’s tapped into rage and wrath. The results are important and though-provoking paintings, relating to his feelings of being fed up with being an outcast in a religiously hypocritical, dont-ask-don’t-tell society. The Bread and Blue exhibition reminds us that it’s the struggle that brings people together, and not perfection.

6–8pm, Artist Reception, exhibit runs through June 17, regular gallery hours, Gallery MAR, 580 Main St., Park City. Free, randalllake.com.

Q Meat & Potato Theatre, a Fabby award nominee, presents EVERYMAN & JUDGMENT DAY. Miracles for the Modern Age is a decidedly modern (and humorous) take on two medieval morality plays that reveal just how little has changed in the human condition in 500 years.

7:30pm, Studio Theatre, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway. Tickets $20, 801-355-ARTS or arttix.org.

Q Born in the Black Rock Desert at the Burning Man Arts Festival, THE MUTAYTOR has gone on to record three critically acclaimed records, and performed to packed houses and giant festivals all over the country. They’ve traveled the country as one of the most bombastic and unique visceral experiences in modern entertainment — combining an 11-piece modern analog and electronic dance orchestra, with 15 physical performance artists. The vibe is ecstatic, friendly and all-inclusive, and each show is an explosion of immersive, vivid art; both on and off the stage.

8pm, through Saturday, Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., Park City. Tickets $18/adv–20/at the door and $25/cabaret table, 435-649-9371 or egyptiantheatrecompany.org.

Q The Royal Court of the Golden Spike Empire invites you to CORONATION XXXVII. Over Memorial Day weekend, the drag queens will host several events including the PR Ball, Empress Tea Party, Victory Brunch and Alaska Water Party. Who will be crowned this year? From what I understand only RuPaul and “Tyrannt” Sanchez really know.

Hours and locations vary. Visit rcgse.org for complete information.

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MONDAY — The freaky fivesome from San Francisco, SUGAR & GOLD, undulate somewhere between sexy & mischievous minimalism and exuberantly intricate pop-production aesthetics. The experience stretches farther than mere dance-all-night hedonism, touching on melancholy smooth R&B as well as slipping a finger or two into the post punk-tinged pie of dub (hmmm! that

sounds nasty) and European experimental club music.

9pm, Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East. Tickets $7, 801-832-1000 or 24tix.com.

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WEDNESDAY — Join Hotel Monaco, Bambara restaurant and the Utah AIDS Foundation for the fourth annual PINK PARTY. This is the party before the Pride party weekend to thank the LGBT community for their support.

Enjoy themed drinks, appetizers, pink boas, prizes and a silent auction. Pink attire highly encouraged, and we all have enough pink, so don’t miss it!

5:30–8pm, Hotel Monaco, 15 W. 200 South.

Packages starting at $20 at the door, please rsvp to nathan@utahaids.org or 801-487-2323

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THURSDAY — The Sundance Institue Film Series presents the Winner of the Documentary Audience Award, UNZIPPED. It is part performance, part cinema vérité, and pure delight as the film follows world-famous gay fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi as he creates his 1994 New York fall fashion show.

7pm, Tower Theare, 876 E. 900 South. Free, saltlakefilmsociety.org.

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FRIDAY — International celebrities descend on UTAH PRIDE 2010 NIGHTLIFE all weekend long as Püre announces Ms. Janice Dickinson, Recording Producer Wendel Kos, The DC Cowboys, drag diva Arione Decardeza, Tina Turner impersonator Caress and more to rock the house. A great way to start and end Pride weekend.

9pm doors open, Püre Club, 235 N. 500 West.

Cover $6, for more info call Eric Turner at 801657-2047 or John Griffin at 801-548-2145.

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SATURDAY — Not only are these sexy cowboys strutting their hot stuff at the Pride festival on both Saturday and Sunday and at Püre on Friday night, but also you can get another chance to drool over the DC COWBOYS tonight at the newly opened Studio 27. This dance troupe has been characterized as “Brokeback Meets Broadway.”

TBA, Studio 27, 615 W. 100 South. Cover $5, 801-363-2200 or studio27slc.com.

Q Pop diva impersonator extraordinaire DERRICK BARRY comes to Salt Lake during Pride weekend to show off her more believable Britney Spears talent than that of Britney herself. Barry will also take on as Lady Gaga, but it’s going to be damn hard to beat Kurt’s (Chris Colfer) impersonation on Glee.

9pm, In The Venue, 214 S. 600 West. Cover TBA, derrickbarry.com.

Q Before heading off to get hog-tied by a DC Cowboy or for a little ooolala from Lady Gaga, join the Salt Lake Art Center for their annual NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE GALA & EXHIBITION. Hosted by Chris Vanocur, the black-tie gala will be catered

by Lortsher/Vlassic Catering, and set to the music of DJ Jesse Walker and the band Solid Gold. A silent auction will also be held. Artists in the exhibition include John Bell, Pilar Pobil and Frank McEntire.

6:30pm Gala, exhibition through July 24, regular gallery hours, Salt Lake Art Center, 123 S. West Temple. For ticket info please call 801328-4201 or visit slartcenter.org.

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WEDNESDAY — The SLCC Community Writing Center’s DiverseCity Writing Series builds connections across the differences in

Salt Lake through story. Join the CWC the launch of the 13th publication of the COMMUNITY WRITING SERIES: SINE CERA. Writers from 10 different DWS community writing groups will share stories, poems, opinions and reflections on life in this moving event. This event, celebrating the anthology, Small Talk with a Winter Sky, will provide glimpses into the life experiences of veterans, teachers, senior citizens, mothers, students and many people who make up our city.

7–9pm, City Library, 210 E. 400 South. Free, slcc.edu/cwc.

save the date June 10–13 Damn These Heels FIlm Festival slcfilmcenter.org

June 12 Salt Lake Men’s Choir “This Land is My Land,” saltlakemenschoir.org June 24–27 Utah Arts Festival uaf.org

UPCOMING EVENTS JUN 12 JUN 12 JUL 4 JUL 16 AUG 20

Lisa Lampanelli, Peppermill Concert Hall, Wendover Olivia Newton-John & Colbie Caillat, ESA One Republic, Deer Valley Paula Poundstone, Rose Wagner Cyndi Lauper, Peppermill Concert Hall, Wendover

July 12 Lilith Fair usana-amp.com

August 20 Cyndi Lauper, Wendover, Nev. wendoverfun.com

August 1 Mary Chapin Carpenter redbuttegarden.org

August 22 Utah Pride Center Golf Classic utahpridecenter.org

August 6–7 Women’s Redrock Music Festival, Torrey redrockwomensfest.com

September 18 sWerve’s Oktoberfest swerveutah.com

August 7–8 Park City Arts Festival kimballartcenter.org August 8 Q Lagoon Day qsaltlake.com

September 28 Equality Utah Allies Dinner equalityutah.org October 9 National Coming Out Day Breakfast utahpridecenter.org

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a&e SATC: Back For More

Talking sex, sequels and the importance of a good time with ‘Sex and the City 2’ mastermind Michael Patrick King — and his famous female stars.

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HIS MOVIE IS JUST CRAZY MAYHEM!”

Kim Cattrall isn’t mincing words. The always outspoken actress, known to millions around the planet as Sex and the City’s glam and lusty Samantha Jones, has no issues about describing what the much awaited Sex and the City 2 movie is going to be like. “We’re picking up two years after we left off in the last film, we’re going off to exotic locations, and crazy things happen to these gals. The first movie was paying homage to the relationships; in this one we’re just having a blast!”

Hold on to your strappy sandals — this fabulous foursome is back. Come Thursday, May 27, the world is getting another dose of the divas, the drama, the bawdy comedy, the romantic angst and the heartfelt affection that follows whenever Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda hit the screen.

Following the 2008 blockbuster, Sex and the City 2 reunites the show’s principals and its creative team, lead by director, writer and producer Michael Patrick King, to take us all on new — and undoubtedly fiercely attired — adventures.

“With the first movie, I felt like the fans wanted a really wild, emotional up-anddown rollercoaster,” explains King. “This time, it’s just a big vacation with a great emotional heart.”

First, the basics: As Sex and the City 2 opens, the four main characters are at a somewhat solid place in their lives. Of course, this being Carrie and her friends, there’s more bubbling beneath the surface.

“This time around, each of the main characters is struggling with being boxed into a traditional role,” explains King. “You’ve got Carrie, the perennial single girl, now married for two years and struggling with the idea of being someone’s wife. You have Charlotte struggling with the idea of being

an ideal mother. Miranda is discovering that there is a glass ceiling at work, and she’s come to the place where she has to define herself by something else besides her job. And Samantha is dealing with the idea of how a woman can change while going through “the change,” and she has decided not to change.”

So when the going gets tough, the tough go somewhere fabulous? Kristin Davis explains the lavish plot twist: “Samantha gets an opportunity to go to Abu Dhabi, and she agrees to go only if her friends can come, because they haven’t been on a trip together since they all went on Carrie’s failed honeymoon. It’s an adventure; it’s a road movie mixed with a kind of mixing of cultures — that alone is funny — but we also share this wonderful communal experience, learning abut some universal struggles and joys that women around the world all go through.”

King elaborates, “Abu Dhabi is thought of as the future, that’s part of their image, and because one of the themes in the movie to me is evolution — the past, who these women were, who they are going to be — the future just seemed like the right place to go.”

The exotic desert setting — the Abu Dhabi scenes were actually shot in Morocco — also made for great visuals. In fact, the crew shot on the same dunes where the classic Lawrence of Arabia was filmed. “I couldn’t wait to see how it would look on film, to see these characters and the costumes against that backdrop,” says the movie’s producer and star, Sarah Jessica Parker. Off camera, the circumstances were unique for the cast and crew, too. “At one point we were eight hours from Marrakech, all living in the same little hotel,” she explains. “We were all taken away from friends, family, children, husbands, wives, extended families — so after shooting we were going home to each other,

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and I think it was the best thing in the world for us. We really became a family.”

Not all of the extravagant plot points take place in the Arabian dunes. Stateside, the story takes the characters to another eclectic location for a glitzy Sex and the City moment — an over-the-top gay wedding in Connecticut. In fact, the film’s festive vibe opens at the outrageously luxe ceremony where Stanford and Anthony (Carrie and Charlotte’s respective gay BFF’s) are saying “I do.” Faithful fans of the TV series needn’t worry whether or not this twist will be believable (formerly, Stanford and Anthony were not exactly pals); King’s on top of it.

“When it comes to Stanford and Anthony, Carrie’s jilt at the altar in the last movie was so traumatic for both of them, that the New Year’s kiss they shared knocked down their walls and brought them close,” King states. “There’s a great joke in the movie where Samantha says, ‘It’s musical chairs—the music stopped and they were the last two left standing.’”

Who else was standing — and officiating — at Stanford and Anthony’s big gay wedding? Liza Minnelli, who turns out the wedding song of any gay groom’s dreams.

“It’s unbelievable,” says King of Minnelli’s performance. “I’ve never seen anybody so focused, fearless and prepared. At some moments I was looking at the monitor and watching her, and I was thinking, ‘I cannot believe what we’re filming.’ She was amazing. At the end of her performance she gave this beautiful speech, and then she sang ‘Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye’ for the cast and crew. And also in the wedding scene, there’s a moat with four swans swimming, and the minute Liza started singing, two swans got out of the water, walked over and sat down by her. Kristin Davis said to me, ‘Of course! It’s her swan song.’ We filmed it and recorded it, and that special treat is on the soundtrack.”

Liza’s not the only special guest star in the film. Miley Cyrus pops up as herself, Project Runway’s Tim Gunn makes an appearance and, most notably, John Corbett shows up in Abu Dhabi, reprising his role as the one man

that Carrie let get away: her former fiancé, Aidan Shaw. Intrigue abounds!

And just in case all of that isn’t enough, Sex and the City 2 serves up another divatastic musical moment with a girl-group rendition of a ’70s classic, cranked out by none other than Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon — all in character, of course. “It’s the Sex and the City karaoke moment,” laughs King. “Since we have an `80s flashback moment in the film, and considering how the show has examined women’s roles and their looks from the ’90s up to now, I thought, ‘What is a defining women’s moment from the ’70s?’ And that song came up.

But that number is really just about girls on vacation; while most friends go to their local joint to do karaoke, my job with Sex in the City 2 is to take these women to an exotic locale and have them sing an iconic song, wearing clothes selected by Pat Field, on a gold-sparkled runway.” He laughs and adds, “I’ve got the best job, ever.”

All the celebratory sparkles, songs and glamorous locations aside, King realizes that there’s something else that brings his legions of devoted Sex and the City fans — straight, gay, female, male or otherwise — back for more. “Underneath all the flash and fashion and fun, Sex and the City is always a romantic, comic tragedy with a real heart.

These women have real feelings. The circumstances may be sensational, the clothes may be a little outrageous, but underneath, there’s a human heart beating. And I really don’t think that people would be returning over and over and over again to these characters if they didn’t see something in their lives being reflected back to them.”

As for the next multi-million-dollar question: Will this phenomenon’s heart keep beating long enough for another sequel?

Will the party continue for Carrie, her friends, and the rest of us? Don’t expect a firm answer from its stars or King. Not yet.

“Let me honestly say that there is no third film already in the works,” admits King.

“We didn’t already shoot it, it’s not ready.

Just enjoy this one!” Q

Salt Lake Will Go Gaga for Derrick

by Jorge Treviano

Derrick Barry has made a career out of being Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. His impersonation of the pop icons has landed him spots on numerous national TV programs including America’s Got Talent, the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and ABC’s The Next Best Thing. Local fans can see him live when he brings his Gaga to Salt Lake City on Saturday, June 5.

Derrick Barry grew up in Modesto, Calif. where he trained as a gymnast from age 5. At 12, he traded the parallel bars for the theatre stage. In truth, it was the adrenaline he experienced from a cheering audience that inspired him to make the change. Barry also realized musical theatre gave him the opportunity to perform with his body and voice.

Today, Barry utilizes that musical theatre background in his career as an impersonator. All of his stage performances incorporate live vocals, whether singing the numbers live or giving the audience an a cappella teaser.

Barry’s career as an impersonator began seven years ago when he first dressed up as Britney Spears for Halloween. His impeccably accurate and choreographed impersonation of the pop princess seems to flow naturally. It has won him much praise including from Britney herself.

In fact, the second time he dressed up as Britney, Barry came face-to-face with the princess of pop. Britney applauded Barry’s impersonation of her when he danced while she was interviewed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Barry has even been featured several times on Britney’s official website. While on her recent Circus tour, Britney kept a copy of their shared magazine cover in her dressing room.

The adoration is mutual. “Britney inspires me,” says Barry who shaved his head the day after Britney Spears shaved hers in a sign of solidarity. “Her music video concept for “...Baby One More Time” remains iconic. She proved her talent to the world and accomplished so much at a young age. I am excited to see what is next in her career.”

As for Barry’s career, he recently added a new pop icon to his six-nights-a-week “Divas Las Vegas” show: Lady Gaga.

“I am huge fan of her music,” he says, acknowledging that a significantly greater amount of effort is required in order to create an accurate representation of Lady Gaga, the artist.

“I spend hours creating crazy costumes and perfecting her elaborate make-up tricks,” continues Barry. On his days off, when not working on his vocals or cho-

Derrick Barry as Lady Gaga.

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reography, Barry can usually be found adorning his costumes with Swarovski crystals.

The persistence has paid off. “Lady Gaga told me I was beautiful. She was shocked to learn that I do my own makeup.”

Before Barry added live vocals to his Gaga act, he apologized to Lady Gaga for lip syncing to her music. She responded, “It’s OK, because if you didn’t, you drag queens would put us out of business.”

Her job is safe. Derrick Barry’s ultimate career goal is not only in music. It’s actually in comedy. More specifically, he’d love to land a role on Saturday Night Live.

“Fans are surprised to learn that I am more like Jim Carrey in my normal life.

I am always hiding around corners, scaring people, or making funny faces and voices. I love to get a laugh.”

In the meantime, he’s enjoying being part of the resurgence of the impersonation industry. He credits icons like RuPaul who he says has made the art of impersonation a huge part of today’s culture.

Derrick Barry is busier than ever, too. In addition to his “Divas Las Vegas” show, he headlines “Boys n Barry Sundaes” in Las Vegas every Sunday night at Krave nightclub. This summer, he is embarking on his second USA tour — a Britney Spears and Lady Gaga tribute — that will hit twenty cities including Salt Lake City.

Female impersonation has opened doors for the young actor/singer/dancer. It has brought him in front of leading directors, producers and entertainers.

Derrick Barry believes the exposure will eventually lead him to his ultimate goal in comedy.

For now, he truly has the best of both worlds. Doesn’t everyone dream of being a pop icon? Q Derrick Barry performs at In The Venue’s ‘Temple Saturdays’, June 5 at 9 p.m., located at 214 S. 600 West.

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I WAS INVITED TO a rosé wine tasting at the Oasis Café.

My cousin, Patti Ellis is friends with the LaSalle family who owns the café, bookstore and Faustina Restaurant.

The Oasis had teamed up with Phoenix Wines to do a very nice, and nicely priced Rosé event, paired with small plates — $35.

When I arrived at the Oasis, I parked in the back lot and then walked down the long stairway into the dining area and bookstore. I hadn’t been there before and I must say, I loved the feel of it all. The dining room had been sectioned off with the larger portion dedicated to the wine tasters and a smaller area left for regular customers.

The wine tasting section was already full of people and had great energy.

I want to tell you a little about rosé wine in general. Unfortunately, we, as Americans, have to be re-programmed regarding pink wine. Our misfortunate invention of “blush wines” about 40 years ago, completely changed the reputation of rosés. Sutter Home made the first blush wine as a mistake and allowed the sugar to explode in a batch of what was to be red Zinfandel. As a EVERAL WEEKS AGO

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Blush wines in a box — forget about it!).

Unhappily, this recent invention tainted the time-honored and delicate process for making beautiful rosés in the old European ways. European-style rosés are created for gorgeous color, crisp freshness, berry, cherry and currant qualities, and they require a great deal of constant testing and tasting by the winemaker. The red skins are allowed to stay in the fermentation process just long enough to impart the desired traits into the wine — the skins are removed only when the correct balance of sugar, acidity, fruit and color remain. Please, the next time someone tells you they hate rosés, take a moment to re-instruct them about the true difference between a dry rosé and American blush wines.

After meeting every one, shaking hands, etc., I was very honored to be seated with the LaSalles and their friends who all live in Bountiful. The first small plate arrived: a perfectly cut disk of sweet, red watermelon, topped with candied walnuts and bleu cheese — it was beautiful and tasty but small, which is what you can expect at a tasting like this one. The watermelon was paired with the best wine of the night, a Gloria Ferrer Rosé of Pinot Noir from Carneros — $14.99. his rosé has a great, thick mouthfeel and is creamy and balanced — some rosés are too acidic and downright tart!

Gloria Ferrer Winery is owned by a huge Spanish Company which has Segura Viudas and Freixinet under its umbrella. They also make the René Barbier wines, which come from the vineyards to the north of Barcelona in Spain. Since both Spain and Southern France are known for rosés, it is understandable that Gloria Ferrer could come up with a good one.

Our next dish was very cleverly thought out. It was a small, cut-up version of a caprese salad spooned into a cocktail glass like ceviche or a shrimp cocktail; fresh tomato, tiny balls of fresh mozzarella, basil and vinaigrette — delicious and fun. Salads and tomatoes are good pairings with many rosés due to their high acidity and crispness, and the color component is important too.

As a chef, I frequently choose one course in a meal to pair with a rosé, just to display the pink color of the wine with “pink” food — some rosés go great with salmon! The caprese salad in a glass was paired with a Spanish, Marquès de Càceres Rioja Rosé — $8.99. This cheaper wine is thinner and more acidic but has great color and went well with the salad.

Next came some skewered shrimp cooked on a smoky grill. The flavor was nice but I thought the shrimp were a little overcooked and rubbery — this, as a cook, is a hard thing to avoid, I know. The simple shrimp with no sauce nor condiment was paired with a Goats do Roam Rosé by Fairview Wineries in South Africa. This wine is basically a blended Rhône-style wine with some Pinotage in the mix. Pinotage is a smoky,

almost “burnt-tire” flavored wine but in this rosé it is only a brief after thought — this was a good choice for the grilled shrimp but my least favorite pairing. The Goats do Roam is $8.99 also.

Our fourth dish came, a bit ill-fated! It was a Lamb Slider, (I’ve had them before at Bambara and at the New Yorker) but this one was chewy and overdone with a sort of creamy/mayonnaise sauce ... it may have been yogurt, served on a small, grocerystore bun — no garnish on the plate whatsoever. I ate it because I was hungry but I felt sorry for the chef who clearly knew that the lamb patties were too done and tough.

The little sandwiches were served with a Rosé of Malbec from Argentina made by Doña Paula. This is also an easy-drinking wine with a deeper cherry flavor due to the Malbec grapes — $8.99.

Our dessert was a tiny, lemon-curd tartlet with a blueberry and a raspberry on top.

We were then asked which of the wines we would like to revisit; we all chose the Gloria Ferrer which we were happy to finish off for the rest of the evening.

The LaSalles were gracious hosts and had the chef bring us some of their menu entrees and we were delighted. First we had a delicious, oven-roasted Talapia on a greenbean and veggies salad — the veggies were absolutely yummy and flavored the way I would do them but next, we were served a simply remarkable Filet of Beef — plated in a way that would rival Chef Franck! The filet was perfectly cooked and topped with a savory demi-glaze. It was perched on a mound of mashed potatoes, nicely flavored, and garnished with roasted tomatoes and mushrooms. At the bottom, the plate was surrounded by a drizzle of neon-green chive oil which was not just colorful, it enhanced all the flavors of the dish. I’m very grateful to the LaSalles for such a fine evening. They are funny and great conversationalists and, obviously, really know how to create good businesses. Thank you, Thank you.

Someday I hope to go back and see what the Oasis kitchen can really do. I think it’s difficult to do a wine tasting with all inexpensive wines but I understand the cost factor. I’m sure that for most of the crowd— the introduction to true rosés was a very nice experience. I give, regrettably, an 89 rating to my experience at the Oasis but can’t wait to go back. Q

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Lynn Lavner, a nationally-known lesbian singer performed, with interruption by a contingency of Neo-Nazi skinheads who marched into the celebration and were met by Anti-Violence Project founder Michael Aaron. While no violence occurred, it was a tense situation. Dozens of Pride-goers surrounded the skinheads

by Ben Williams mont Park. This Pride Day Committee and turned their backs on them, making E CELEBRATE PRIDE DAY IN UTAH sponsored the event over the next three them invisible to the crowd and, thus, neas part of a directive which years, and was the first to adopt a nation- gating the reason they were there. They originated in 1969 when the al Pride Day Committee’s theme. The left after less than 10 minutes.

Connell O’Donovan’s second Gay Pride Eastern Regional Conference chairs were Marshall Brunner, Nikki of Homophile Organizations (ECHO) ad- Boyer and Mitchell Beauchaine. Beau- March was also disrupted by Neo-Nazis opted the motion to hold “parallel dem- chaine was the last chairman during who stood on the east steps of the City onstrations on the last Saturday in June these years and held Gay and Lesbian County Building taunting the marchers rallying at Washington Square. The to commemorate the rebellion on Chris- Pride Day in Pioneer Park in 1986.

In 1987 the newly-formed Gay and Les- tradition of an annual Pride March and topher Street.” The reference to the rebellion, of course, refers to the Stonewall bian Community Council of Utah took Rally ended when Rocky O’Donovan Inn riots in New York City. Utah has cel- over the responsibilities of Utah’s annu- left Salt Lake City in 1992. No one came ebrated being “Gay and Proud” for the al event. Donnie Eastepp, Emperor XII of forward to organize a third and it would last 35 years and perhaps even longer by the RCGSE, was elected chair of the Pride be two years before Bruce Harmon and individuals.

Day Committee. He created a community Rev. Bruce Barton, along with then-Pride service award which was presented to Dr. Chair Jeff Freedman, stepped forward to PRIDE IN THE SEVENTIES re-invent the Pride March and Rally and A “Beer Bust Kegger” sponsored in 1974 Kristen Ries for her efforts treating AIDS transform it into something even greater: patients when no other doctors in Utah by the old Sun Tavern was the first atthe Gay Pride Parade. were willing to do so.

The award was estempt to bring people together to celPride Days under the directions of ebrate the emergence of an openly gay tablished to recognize outstanding serthe GLCCU transformed the celebravice to the gay and lesbian community. community in Utah. Over 200 men and tion from simply a day in the park to women celebrated “Gay Pride” along the Eastepp also moved the location of Gay a major annual event where Salt Lake Pride Day to Sunnyside Park where it reshores of the Great Salt Lake at, what was City’s politicians began to attend and mained until 1989.

Floyd Gamble, Steven once known as, “Bare Bum Beach.” the quality of entertainers and speakLloyd, Julie Pollock and Curtis Jensen, The first official community-wide ers increased. With the election of Jeff Kevin Hillman, Deborah Rosenberg, Ansponsored pride celebration called “Gay Freedman as chair of the GLCCU’s Gay Freedom Day” was held June 1, 1975. tonia Dela Guerra, Kyle Kennedy, Kathy Pride Day Committee, the organization Matthews and Julie Hale where the Sponsored by the Gay Community Serbegan its transition from being simply chairs and co-chairs of GLCCU’s Pride vice Center, it was held in City Creek a committee, to being GLCCU’s sole enDay Committee over these seven years.

Canyon where festivities included free tity when the organization collapsed in beer, food, soft drinks, volleyball, an all- They provided Utah’s gay community a 1995. Freedman and co-chair Julie Hale consistently successful event celebrating day “do your own thing” talent revue and were the last formally-elected chairs of Utah’s sexual minorities.

The Kristen sing-a-long, games for prizes and a white the Gay Pride Day committee under the elephant auction. A shuttle service from Ries Community Service recipients were direction of GLCCU. local gay bars provided additional trans- Rev. Bruce Barton, KUTV Channel 2, Jeff Freedman, a former emperor of the Chuck Whyte, Nikki Boyer, Becky Moss, portation.

Royal Court, served longer than any other Over the next three years Gay Freedom Ben Williams, the College of Monarchs of Gay Pride Day volunteer in Utah. His viDays were promoted mainly by the Gay the RCGSE, Craig Miller, Ben Barr, Val sion of Pride Day encompassed the entire Mansfield, Kathy Worthington and Kim Service Committee and the Salt Lake Cospectrum of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, alition of Human Rights. The most ambi- Russo. transgender and straight allies commutious of these celebrations was a festival PRIDE IN THE NINETIES nities. The Pride Day events of the latter and conference held in 1977, which fea- In 1990, on the 21st anniversary of the half of the 1990s were thus stamped indeltured Sgt. Leonard Matlovich as keynote Stonewall Rebellion, the Salt Lake City ibly with Freedman’s concept that Pride speaker. Matlovich was an ex-Air Force gay community held its first Gay and Day was a community party. He brought Sergeant and winner of the Bronze Star Lesbian Pride March. Nearly 200 people professionalism to the job as he endeavand Purple Heart, and also a gay Mormon. gathered on the steps of the state capitol ored to ensure gender parity. Freedman’s As the heady “Gay Power Days” of to listen to speeches by Connell “Rocky” co-chairs were Julie Hale, Carrie Gaylor the 1970s began to wane, a fragmented O’Donovan, who organized the march, and Kim Russo. The Kristen Ries Award community ravaged by the onslaught Becky Moorman, Angela Nutt and Robrecipients during Freedman’s era were of a conservative backlash tried to hold ert Austin. The pride festival was held at Bruce Harmon, Clariss (Doug Tollstrup) scaled-down celebrations. Without wide- the Northwest Community Center.

Cartier, Charlene Orchard, Barb Barnspread support, the spirit of Gay Pride Under the direction of Kevin Hill- hart, Rev. Kelly Byrnes, Jeff Freedman, was kept going by individual groups man and his co-chairs, Pride Day exMaggie Snyder, LaDonna Moore and Dr. such as the Tavern Guild, Affirmation panded, and in 1991 moved to the Salt Patty Reagan. and LGSU. Lake County Fairgrounds in Murray.

In 1994 the first Pride Parade was orgaThe 1991 Pride Committee added to the nized as the kick-off event for Pride Day. PRIDE IN THE EIGHTIES In 1983 members of the Royal Court of festival a pride guide, an art show and Emperor XV, Bruce Harmon, assisted the Golden Spike Empire met to revi- contest, sponsored by Angela Nutt and by his partner Rev. Bruce Barton, estabtalize the true concept of a “Gay Pride David Thometz, and a Utah Gay and Les- lished the annual parade that continues Day.” Tim Leming, Marshall Brunner, bian Film Festival, created by Marlin to this day. Bruce Barton nearly singleLarry Pacheco and Mel Rohland, among Criddle. They also brought in a nation- handedly, on his own sewing machine, others, formed a committee and an event ally syndicated columnist, Dell Richards, created the 100-foot rainbow flag that is billed as a “Basket Social” held in Fair- as keynote speaker. For entertainment, carried annually in the parade.

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In 1996 Jeff Freedman, Carrie Gaylor and Bruce Harmon invited Chasity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher and spokeswoman of the Human Rights Campaign’s National Coming Out Project, to be the first Grand Marshal of Utah’s Gay Pride Parade. Freedman and his committees also invited Candace Gingrich, Deb Burington and Charlene Orchard and actor Dan Butler to serve as Grand Marshals.

Freedman was instrumental in getting corporate sponsorships of Pride Day and moving it to downtown Salt Lake City — first to the Gallivan Center and later to Washington Square. Freedman’s last act of the period was organizing Pride Day, Inc. as a separate entity from the defunct GLCCU.

PRIDE THIS CENTURY With the new millennium came controversy as Pride Day began to expand exponentially. Kim Russo became director of the new corporation for two years, assisted by co-chairs Adam Frost and Billy Lewis. During the Russo years, Utah State Rep. Jackie Biskupski and Mayor Rocky Anderson served as Grand Marshals for the Pride Parade and Marlin Criddle, Brenda Voisard, Laura Milliken Gray and Brook Heart-Song became Kristen Ries Award Recipients.

Unfortunately without the community’s oversight, fiduciary problems surfaced during 2001.

Pride Day 2002 was run by a committee headed by Sherry Booth with Chad Keller as chair of the Pride Parade. Steve Kmetko, host of E! News Live, was Grand Marshal and Kevin Hillman received the Kristen Ries Award. Additionally in 2002, the Community Volunteer, Organization of the Year and the Pete Suazo Political Action Awards were created to recognize contributions to the community. The Utah Pride Interfaith Service was also added to Pride Day. The 2002 committee tried to rebuild the image of Pride Day, but because Pride Day, Inc. had found itself in serious debt, the committee elected to be absorbed by the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Utah, a move that generated much controversy in the community because of the secrecy surrounding the move.

The Utah Pride Center has provided direction for the event for the past seven years and even changed its name to reflect Pride. The former volunteer position of director of Pride Day, Inc. became salaried for the first time in 2003 and a Dyke March was added to the annual Pride Day Parade. Donald Steward was Pride Parade coordinator for three of those years.

The grand marshals under the direction of the Center were Kate Kendall, Bruce Bastian, Utah State Senator Scott McCoy, J. Boyer Jarvis and John Amaechi.

The Kristen Ries Award Recipents were Doug Wortham, Lucia Malin, Jane and Tami Marquardt, Utah State Rep. Jackie Biskupski and Doug Fadel. Q

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to wrestle with weight issues, you may feel that dropping pounds is simply a matter of work ethic. Maybe you feel that people who aren’t losing weight quickly are just plain lazy. If this how you feel, you are not alone. Most people believe that weight loss is a simple matter of mathematics. Eat less and exercise more is usually the only formula people consider when it comes to body change. But this isn’t the case. Where weight loss is about quantity of food intake and amount of exercise, fat loss is about the quality of food and the type of exercise.

But, if you are someone who has always struggled to transform your body, your feelings may be completely different. You have probably been trying to explain to people your whole life that your weight issues are about more than calories. You have known all along that the calorie theory just simply does not work for you. Yet, the whole world has been telling you something different.

Allow me to come to your defense and say it loud and clear: body change is about more than calories, much more.

How many calories does stress have?

How about sleep or dehydration? These questions present a dilemma, don’t they?

That is because they demonstrate how simplistic models break down so quickly in the real world. These variables are not directly related to calories at all, yet they affect human metabolism profoundly. The human body is the most complicated piece of machinery in the world, yet we insist on acting as if it were a furnace. Even a car engine, which is not nearly as complicated as a human, is affected by more than the amount of fuel in the tank. The fuel grade, last oil change, tire pressure and the way it’s driven all dramatically impact not only your car’s performance, but also the health and longevity of the engine. It’s ridiculous to assume the human body is any less complicated.

Fat Loss vs. Weight Loss Weight loss does not equal fat loss. You may be burning calories or losing weight, but that weight and those calories may not be coming from fat. If you follow the standard low calorie/aerobic exercise model, you are likely burning muscle, not fat, and loss of muscle means a less efficient metabolism. So, when we as dieters and fitness enthusiasts focus on weight loss, we are doing a grave disservice to ourselves. Also, it has been known for quite some time that the low calorie aerobic exercise model creates a much less efficient metabolism in the long run.

Now let’s look at how metabolism works.

Basal Metabolic Rate

Basal metabolic rate accounts for over twothirds of the calories burned at rest. More than half of BMR can be accounted for by a person’s amount of fat free mass. FFM is just a fancy term for how much muscle and organ tissue someone has. So, the most reliable way to enhance or maintain the metabolic rate is through the development or maintenance of muscle tissue.

A low calorie diet and aerobic exercise regime may not help enhance metabolism.

Research shows that dietary restriction decreases the BMR by 10-20 percent. Adding aerobic exercise to the mix does absolutely

nothing to stop this effect, and may actually enhance the loss of metabolism through a loss in muscle tissue.

Focusing on resistance training over aerobic exercise has been shown to do the exact opposite from aerobic exercise. Resistance training actually increases BMR.

Exercise for Fat Loss

Exercise for fat loss is different than exercise for weight loss. It’s not just what happens during exercise that matters, but what happens after. Intense weight training and aerobic exercise done in short all-out bursts followed by rest are able to generate a hormonal response that allows you to enjoy an “after burn” effect for 24 to 48 hours after the actual workout. The traditional aerobic exercise program, where slower paced running is done for long periods, burns fat during exercise, but has a hormonal effect that will reduce valuable muscle. This approach is not ideal for fat loss since muscle is a major force of your fat burning metabolism. In order to take advantage of hormonal fat burning, exercise sessions should be short and intense, and combine elements of weight and cardiovascular training.

Short, intense exercise changes hormones, allowing you to exercise for less time and get better results.

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Nutrition for Fat Loss

Nutrition for fat loss is similar. A high carbohydrate, low fat diet is the equivalent of aerobic exercise in the exercise world, while a high protein, low carbohydrate diet is the equivalent of resistance training. High carbohydrate, low fat diets may help you lose weight, but they are miserable for fat loss.

Physicians, nutritionists and personal trainers are still confused on this matter, but the science is beginning to become overwhelmingly in favor of high protein diets. Just about every major study comparing a high protein diet to a high carb/ low fat diet comes out in favor of the high protein diet. Several recent studies seem to show conclusively that a lower carbohydrate and higher protein approach is far better than other alternatives for both weight loss and fat loss.

It appears this approach outperforms all other diets when it comes to weight loss and fat loss, without any of the “mythical” negative effects many people claim.

Final Thoughts

It’s time to change our language and thoughts from weight loss-centered ideas to fat loss. For those seeking to change the look, feel and function of their bodies, the single-minded and simplistic approach of low calorie diets and aerobically dominated exercise programs are not as beneficial.

To maintain muscle and metabolic rate, the focus should be on the type of food consumed and the type of exercise done.

A focus on resistance training, lower carbohydrate and higher protein diets is the answer to maintaining your muscle mass while losing fat. These programs not only provide better results, but better health as well. This is a strategy that physique athletes have been using for decades, so it’s funny that science is just now proving they were right all along.

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PRIDE is upon us, that beacon of acceptance for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Salt Lake City is practically humming with its arrival. I’m sure you’ve seen the advertisements.

Truthfully, like many of you, I have not attended a Utah Pride Festival before.

I have always viewed it as an excuse to party and lose inhibitions publicly, a place where the veil of sexual acceptance makes people unaware of their actions. Honestly, I felt that the festival represented the community in a bad light.

But upon researching the local impact and true nature of the event, I feel compelled to go and support a community that, without fail, always supports me. And I implore and recommend that you do as well.

Pride today is turning to the past and getting back to its roots. Widespread acceptance including support for gay rights, and being able to hold your partner’s hand in public wasn’t always as present as it is today. Pride was made by a grassroots congregation of gay individuals reaching out to others to create a safe environment and grow as a community with an eye toward the future.

This year’s celebration will prove just how positive Pride is and how the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community not only throws the best events, but the most informative kind of party. One of NOTHER YEAR HAS GONE BY AND

the best things about Pride is that it brings bars/clubs and people together. And I believe this year that feeling of camaraderie that happens during Pride might even last the whole year.

This year’s event is being conducted around values it was founded upon — education, support and safety. For example, the Utah Pride Center’s tents will have

Take pride in yourself and the people who have worked hard to ensure a more accepting future for younger generations helpful information about safe sex and coming out. Also, Püre’s outdoor club experience on the festival grounds will hopefully open a conversation between people who would normally never interact with one another.

Have I made my point about the event?

Just go! Open yourself to the Pride expe-

rience and take pride in yourself and the people who have worked hard to ensure a more accepting future for younger generations.

Moving on, no Pride goes without many events piggybacking off the hype. This year there are a few worth recommending. First, Janice Dickinson (the self-proclaimed “first supermodel”) will be at Püre and no doubt cause more drama than necessary, but I won’t miss a moment of her over-the-top performance. She is a wild, passionate woman who has gone from the cover of magazines to owning her own modeling agency. This night with her will be one to remember.

I’d also like to recommend Jujubee at JAM. She received second place in RuPaul’s Drag Race and will certainly bring many laughs, and, I’m sure, embarrassing moments as she calls on the crowd and stirs up the evening.

Lastly, Studio 27 is having its grand opening! Located at The Trapp Door’s old location, it is nestled close to most of the “usual” downtown stomping grounds. I haven’t heard much about this new club, but I am willing to give it a try. I hope you’ll all join me in welcoming a new establishment hoping to provide a great atmosphere, friendly bar staff and unique environment.

So when all is said and done, this year’s Pride is going to draw in a great crowd, great talent and informative information for the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The parties will run rampant in private homes, the parties at the clubs and bars we know and love will be grand, and the main party downtown will be something to talk about. See you all there. Q

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As you may or may not know, Petunia is a substantively “gravity enhanced” blossom of nature. Alas, I have genetics working against me because I have big bones — no, really, I do! However, people who wish to continue living should ignore the obvious and just call me voluptuous, rubenesque or horizontally gifted.

All that notwithstanding, I’m still just a little bit bitter about the harpooning incident in the swimming pool at last year’s Gay Day at Lagoon. I knew I should have worn my tiara in the pool so people would realize that they were swimming with royalty.

To add insult to injury, a high school geology teacher also asked me and a couple of the other “full-figured girls” to demonstrate the theory of continental drift for his class. As a queen who feels that the education of youth is of paramount concern, I felt obligated to participate. Consequently, I successfully played the part of the continent of Africa, with my ass crack being the perfect rendition of the Great Rift Valley. (I knew all those acting classes would come in handy some day. Imagine, me, The African Queen. Katherine Hepburn, eat your heart out.) The most pleasurable part of this educational experiment was in the beginning, when we were all bunched together bumping and grinding our tectonic plates into each other, to form the supercontinent, Pangaea. But the novelty soon wore off. After a couple of minutes it was more like too many frenzied hippos trying to squeeze into the same mud hole. A bystander caught it on video, and even the Animal Planet channel refused to show it, stating that it was just too unbelievable to be real.

Therefore, to my great dismay, and to mitigate my shame and avoid future harpooning, it is diet time! I sit here at the computer, literally starving. How is anyone expected to survive on less than 15,000 calories a day? I can barely move for lack of energy and my mind is wandering from low blood sugar.

Consequently, I am having obsessive thoughts of all things edible. I wistfully daydream of days gone by and semi-regular outings to that great Utah cultural Mecca, Chuck-a-Rama. It was a longstanding tradition that when my royal land yacht, QueerTanic, would voyage to Salt Lake carrying my “cortege of royal strumpets,” a visit to “Sir Chuck’s” would be one of the highest priorities. When our plates were piled high with copious amounts of delicious comfort food, all was well and peaceful, love and goodwill filled the whole world. No other place on

Earth comes as close to being Nirvana.

And so, Petunia’s periodic pilgrimage to the perfect provisions of Chuck-a-Rama continued for many years until a few new sisters who imagined themselves to be more evolved than us poor old Utah queens moved into the state. They expressed a great disdain for something so pedestrian as Chuck-a-Rama. They would rather die than be seen at the “feeding trough.” After many protestations, and whining by the new girls, I decided to let them introduce me to their cuisine of choice. They took me to a trendy restaurant (which shall remain nameless) that was all the rage.

Upon studying the menu, with many, many fancy schmancy, unidentifiable and even more unpronounceable items, I asked for one printed in English, and was scornfully told that the menu was in English. After ordering what I thought were the safest items on the menu, I sat in stunned silence as the waiter brought out our food.

True, the plates were beautiful, artistic creations, worthy of any new age art show.

However, I was unable to identify any edible parts. My pretentious friends were acting all high and mighty, zealously fawning over all the unusual foods, much like all the people exclaiming how beautiful “The Emperor’s New Clothes” were (The ladies doth protest too much, methinks.).

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Ahhhh, now that’s good livin.’ Happy at last, I drove home while singing my anthem, “I Am The Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer, with the Polyester Curtains and the Red Wood Deck.”

After this unpleasant dining debacle, I have become wary of being forced to eat “pretentious food.” I put my foot down and make others accompany me to Chucka-Rama or another such delectable destination. I quietly smile as I notice that the pretentious queens pile their plates just as high as the rest of us, all the while exclaiming what swill it is, and claiming that they never come to such places. All the while negotiating the ins and outs of the buffet line like pros. Hmmm ...

Like always, these events leave us with many eternal questions: 1. What part of my anatomy could possibly portray Mount Kilimanjaro?

2. Could the continental drift video be used on the education channel?

3. Does chlorine swimming pool water discolor tiara jewels?

4. Should I open a restaurant called Trailer Trash?

5. Should Chuck-a-Rama change its name to Nirvana?

6. Should I install polyester curtains in Queer-Tanic?

7. Is Tokyo in danger until I finish my diet?

These and other important questions to be answered in future chapters of “The Perils of Petunia Pap-Smear.” Q

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